#din

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#drill #grinding #intellect #most #painful

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#did #guidance #information #interest #providing

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#getting #lay #our #powers #spending

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. ↗

— Isaac D'Israeli

#reading #age

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#aids #grinding #level #live #living

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #called #endings #fairytale #find

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. ↗

— Rumi

#konya #mevlana #rumi #turkey #beauty

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. ↗

— Xenophon

#any #beauty #compulsion #dancer #does

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#cathedral #consistent #gothic #i #important

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. ↗

— Mo Yan

#continue #describing #emotions #feet #ground