#zed

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. ↗

— Jack Vance

#call #done #far #got #i

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide. ↗

— Charles King

#committing #gift #girl #her #i

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal. ↗

— Josh Ryan Evans

#i #life #my life #normal #per

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#after #assets #bank #decade #equipment

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ↗

— Alex Grey

#individuality #prized #society #thinking #tries

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west. ↗

— John Hawkes

#cast #comes #demo #even #got

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#business #business world #came #enjoying #expecting

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#essentially #experience #foundation #higher #larger

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#allows #american #american people #build #country