#elle

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consequently #excellent #hand #haunches #him

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#life #personality #understanding #life

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#commerce #each #experiment #focus #intellect

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#intellectually #myself #only #people #stimulating

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#betray #i #intellectual #myself #power

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#fascinating #get #glamorous #go #highly

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#bass #bass players #intellectual #kind #knows

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#article #book #born #come #i

I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it.  Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true.  I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison.  So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inner-glow #richelle #richelle-goodrich #spark #beauty

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable