#cat

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite. ↗

— L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

#intellect #learning #education

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#arts #arts education #chances #demonstrated #education

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#lot #more #music #place #size

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. ↗

— Patch Adams

#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#complicated things #saying #simple #simple way #style

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#day #domesticated #foresee #granted #i

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#beyond #care #culture #education #extends

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #glorification #indulge #justification #life