#cs

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#economics #marketing #politics #science #art

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#politics #right #time

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. ↗

— Ann Richards

#dancing #politics #texas #women #women

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#critics #doubts #work

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#history #immigration #politics #revolution #united-states

I want to name one of my sons “For Sale.” That way, not only would he make an excellent politician, but even after his death his children could benefit from his name through his headstone, which would read “For Sale: 904.555.4272. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #headstone #politics #death

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#happiness #happy

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#politics #truth #war #sacrifice

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#quantum-physics #schrodinger-s-cat #wisdom #acting