#ear

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ↗

— William Blake

#cleansed #doors #everything #infinite #man

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#america #bosom #country #german #heart

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#dried #face #germany #i #over

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ago #finally #how #i #learn

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#awake #away #back #continuously #far

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #commemorate #cooking #harbor #kids

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. ↗

— Tony Blair

#go #got #i #i can #only