#ak

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. ↗

— Shania Twain

#achieved #beyond #ever #everything #i

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dream #great #how #i #i can

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#breaking #enough #fast #move #moving

Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish. ↗

— Kathy Lette

#love #beauty

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#could #disgust #hands #his #honor

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creates #fair #family #find #found

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#because #being #believe #crowd #immense