#art

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice. ↗

— Tessa Emily Hall

#inspirational-quotes #peace #inspirational

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#bohemian #change-the-world #doing #talking #visonary

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#always #bummed #business #celebrity #dating

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#before #blunt #christmas #country #figure

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#had #i #since #started #theatrical

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did