#din

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

#could #does #each #growing #growing up

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. ↗

— June Singer

#first #half #interaction #life #mainly

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. ↗

— Crystal Chappell

#had #idea #no idea #olivia #understanding

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#old-age #reading #age

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. ↗

— Ryan White

#attitudes #changing #could #education #faith

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #re-reading #reading #age

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#reading #age