#ass

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#been #child #classic #could #i

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#bonds #currencies #exposed #foreign #global

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. ↗

— George Eliot

#before #bray #down #good #may

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#bar #constitution #dignity #english #ever