#eva

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy. ↗

— Patty Duke

#crazy #deny #developed #go #unbelievable

I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#ago #brother #devastating #died #eight

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#audience #commissioners #constantly #dawns #different

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#honour #long #prevails #sinks #where

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anxiety #back #cases #compulsively #depression

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ↗

— Brian Eno

#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#actually #atheist #chance #evangelical #gives

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really