“To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.” Has BeensShowsGirlLaughingCryTvsJokesWingsWestWelcomeReliefTv ShowsInterruptedGirl Interrupted Author:Elisabeth Moss
“The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.” Has BeensDifferentWholeWould BeCertainCareersWingsSpots Author:Bob Mould
“Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.” KindHas BeensLeftAreasWingsEnvironmentalNutsDnaStrainBugsBreakthroughLeft WingAndromeda Author:James D. Watson
“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.” HumansPersonsHas BeensMatterAblePoliticalEvilPoliticsLeftComfortableIdealsWingsWesternNaiveRight WingStandpointLeft Wing Author:Derek R. Audette
“A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.” MindHas BeensWholeDreamWishAttitudeWingsOptimistic Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him” Has BeensDreamGivenEmpowermentWingsTinyEaglesSparrows Author:Kenneth Wapnick
“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanHas BeensIdeasHappensNaturalPowerfulTroubleGroupsWingsSurprisingRight WingSubordinatesSubordination Author:Gloria Steinem
“The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.” IfsWorldWayShouldHas BeensWholeWould BeLastsCareersWingsCriticsInsanePigsRight WingAsylumsSexistBigotsInsane AsylumWarmongersHomophobes Author:Rush Limbaugh