#epa

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#hugely #i #implies #intellect #know

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. ↗

— Amy Adams

#because #been #crossed #ever #forget

Winning is the science of being totally prepared. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#prepared #science #totally #winning

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#feeling #paltry #separates #silences #unites

So I departed and was free from imprisonment. ↗

— William Adams

#free #i #imprisonment

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. ↗

— Aesop

#thrifty #today #tomorrow #wants

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#go #i #i do #prepared #professional

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art school #artists #development #had #i

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental