#ai

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#came #day #every #hour #life

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

I certainly had no intention of playing a man. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#had #i #intention #man #playing

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#brain #digests #education #folly #fool

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#broken heart #comfortable #complaint #heart #income

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#failures #i #more #nine #observed