#eat

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a calm facial expression with crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanor i believe in a human being that is not upset i believe if you are working i should not be insane or upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working? i vacuumed the entire house this morning i cleaned the kitchen and the computer room and i made you a meat helmet with computer paper the opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are alone and separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of moments and the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinking your hands are covering your face and your body moves like a statue when i try to manipulate an appendage if i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time ↗

— Tao Lin

#impermanence #indifferent-universe #meat-helmet #productivity #sadness

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#copland #create #did #feel #had

In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so commonplace. On every side of him there are words by the millions, an unending succession of pamphlets and papers, letters and books, bills and bulletins, commentaries and conversations. He has diluted and multiplied the Word, and words have begun to close in on him. He is sated and insensitive; his regard for language -- for the Word itself -- as an instrument of creation has diminished nearly to the point of no return. It may be that he will perish by the Word. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#creativity #language #modernity #change

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#forecasting #global-warming #weather #change

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. ↗

— George Orwell

#wisdom #death

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world ↗

— Gossy Ukanwoke

#creativity #inspirational #change

It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot! ↗

— Rick Yancey

#history #humor #monster-snot #monstrumology #change

A growing heat, like a million blazing suns all focused on me, lit my insides. It felt like I was being cooked in the Gabriella Roast Cooker, me spinning around-and-around to heat my flesh evenly. For some reason I was having trouble comprehending the sudden change in my revolving world as I swelled with a horrible, billowing fire. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#blazing #fire #heat #kreitzer #suns

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#humor #roman #secrets #death

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #better #betterment #change #creativity