#aw

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#best #drops #else #everything #out

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #cheaper #consider #hardly #lawful

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. ↗

— John Ruskin

#close #dawn #every #life #setting

I had a fucking standing ovation going on in my goddamn pants, and it was demanding an encore. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#funny #humor #sex #funny

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#awareness #called #conceiving #concept #universal

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ↗

— George William Russell

#fawn #followed #hunter #night #timid

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#hypothesis #law #natural #working

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#career #done #good #good time #had