#engaged

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. ↗

— John Barton

#exploitative #few #i #like #link

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. ↗

— Will Eisner

#always #art #art form #been #belief

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. ↗

— William Law

#believe #conclude #desire #engaged #full

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#engaged #friends #getting #getting married #grave

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#break #engaged #i #just #married

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing. ↗

— Judith Wright

#barely #creative #deeply #empty #engaged

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. ↗

— William Safire

#bloggers #bottom #confined #down #engaged

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#colleagues #engaged #here #i #knowledge

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#as far as #collaborations #craftsman #engaged #far

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders. ↗

— Julius Streicher

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