#ape

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#arts #back #bank #bank robbery #being

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#creativity #education #foundation #fuels #generations

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#another woman #appears #every #four #had

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#commit #discovery #evenings #feel #goodness

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. ↗

— David Icke

#breaks #clear #distinct #down #groups

I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. ↗

— Frank Iero

#also #back #band #called #ever

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#forces #historical #history #merely #nor

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#down #gets #great #itself #last

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape. ↗

— David Bergen

#escape #self-realization #age

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#introspection #life