"Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Sneed

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #Media Quotes

“Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.”

Source : Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books
“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.”
“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to seeâ€”a faculty that usually isnâ€™t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”
“As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of stars into constellations. I don't usually spend time asking whether the stars are random or planned. I make a narrative in the darkness, the area subscribed by an outline of bright points. Sometimes they look like Ursa Minor, and sometimes they just looks like one day the world exploded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”
“I really think for the good of this world that, if I could have it my way, the whole world would be vegan and straightedge. So that's why I feel it's important to create an awareness of this lifestyle, create an awareness of the choices people make. To bring awareness about those lifestyles can bring a positive change, if only on the level of an individual.”

Source : "The Fly" Magazine, November 2009.
“I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.”

Source : Speech in Leipzig, March 4, 1935.

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