#elle

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#enough #given #i #kind #lucky

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cannot #exhausted #genuine #indifferent #individuality

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. ↗

— Nina Simone

#because #classical #classical music #dedicated #excellence

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#education #equal #his #intellect #least

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#good #good writer #mankind #redeemer #scholar

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ↗

— Sivananda

#even #heart #intellect #mind #put

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

#backwards #better #book #delusions #excellent