#be

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#beaches #bunch #days #did #europe

If you dream and you believe, you can do it. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#dream #you #you can do it

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#always #aspirations #did #dreams #guess

I been in this game a long time. ↗

— Trick Daddy

#game #i #long #long time #time

But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically disinclined it's verging on criminal, I never understood the beauty of an object's workings until Linny sat my reluctant self down one day and showed me her camera. Within fifteen minutes, I had fallen hard for the whole gadgety, eyelike nature of the thing: a tiny piece of glass slowing, bending, organizing light - light - into your grandmother, the Grand Canyon, the begonia on the windowsill, the film keeping the image like a secret. Grandmother, canyon, begonia tucked neatly into the sleek black box, like bugs in a jar. My mind boggled. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#beauty

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#because #children #difficult #find #learn

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#benches #facing #hall #held #perched

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#glorious #had #obsolete

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. ↗