#chin

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#philosophy #tao-te-ching #beauty

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#especially #i #living #moment #moments

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friction #kills #machinery #people #revolution

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#america #because #did #hell #i

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#band #drummer #i #joined #marching

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really? ↗

— Jamie Bell

#effort #environment #everyone #i #know

All disgust is originally disgust at touching. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#originally #touching

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#chatting #could #daisy #direct #driving