Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? Mary Douglas Read Quote
I focus on making sure I’m sharp, and it doesn’t matter who I am fighting. I need to perform at my best and try to elevate my game to the highest level I possibly can, so that is what I concentrate on doing. Robbie Lawler Read Quote
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don’t ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. John Hurt Read Quote
Girls can be funny and play sports and show how to do the perfect soccer kick if they want. Eva Gutowski Read Quote
If it’s just going to go in my body, then I don’t want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body. Lewis Capaldi Read Quote
As the writer, you’re always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you’re writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you’ve also nailed yourself. Richard Thompson Read Quote
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the ‘thees’ and ‘thous’ of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition. Roger Scruton Read Quote
