#ch

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom! ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#back #been #boom #changed #constant

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#like #memory #nails #our #sentences

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#gives #head #i #important #music

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

#definition #extraterrestrial #fancy #higher #life

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#beautiful #destination #enjoy #find #i

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#another #any #applying #approach #different