#z

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#rebellion #civilization

I don't perform. Seals perform. ↗

— Morrissey

#musicians #unusual #musician

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

Kenzie approached sheepishly, one half of the broken rattan in her hand. "Sorry," she said, holding up the ruined weapon with a helpless gesture. "It...uh...died a noble death. I can only hope it gave that thing a wicked tongue splinter. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#noble #rattan #splinter #death

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #life #son-of-neptune #death

its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab said ↗

— Margaret Weis

#lenthan #mistake #stars #zifnabv #death

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#discovery #hope #self-realization #truth #women

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#evil #get #good #must #out