#ants

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful ↗

— Ernest Cline

#pessimistic #they-might-be-giants #tmbw #beauty

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#arrives #art #between #comes #difference

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#american #american idol #because #cheeks #chubby

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#always #anger #became #because #brutal

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#content #everybody #nobody #paris #spectator

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#less #little #more #much #relative

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#immigrants #laws #nation

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#basic #cats #culture #god #i

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#around #everybody #going #life #like