#ace

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. ↗

— David Dinkins

#children #columbia #course #fun #go

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ↗

— Walt Disney

#build #create #dream #make #most

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#connects #interests #me #might #place

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#billions #change #emergence #evolution #further

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fools #only #peace #services #wartime

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#inner #inner peace #measured #money #peace

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#inner #inner peace #measured #peace #success

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

#air #descent #easy #enough #infernal

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off