#engaged

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#background #came #deeper #earth #effect

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#books #engaged #losers #lost #people

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#birth #death #engaged #life #peace

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#achieve #alive #associated #being #doing

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#articles #chronicles #daily #engaged #ever

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#attracted #buffy #careful #create #created

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#any #battle #did #engaged #forces