#eh

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#begin #between #came #day #downstairs

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#age

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. ↗

— David Arquette

#business #different #dishonesty #dislike #falsehoods

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. ↗

— Julian Assange

#because #behavior #good #good behavior #intelligence

I think the United States is way behind the times. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#i #i think #states #think #times

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#behind #crime #every #fortune #lies

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ↗

— Jane Austen

#ever #incomprehensible #man #marriage #offer