#d

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#days #five #force #i #iraq

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. ↗

— Donald Trump

#consciously #expected #me #unconsciously #women

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#axiom #been #important #infinitely #little

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. ↗

— John Lawson

#follow #french #indians #interest #living

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. ↗

— Nigel Lawson

#called #enough #had #had enough #i

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#also #areas #been #dies #funny

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

Change is inevitable, progress is not. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #improvement #life #progress #change