#being

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ↗

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#attractive #being #call #cannot #themselves

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#drawing #first #human #human being #writing

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#being #better #communist #confused #despite

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' ↗

— John Sayles

#door #had #here #i #i remember

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#being #cause #get #hear #hear music

I don't like publicity, being in the limelight. ↗

— Paul Ince

#i #like #limelight #publicity

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#being #being honest #eight #five #fundamentally