#ever

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #despair #head #hope #i

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. ↗

— John Tesh

#being #being honest #biggest #everything #faith

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#everybody #give #give me #i #make

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that. ↗

— John Tesh

#buy #every #full-time #grand #had

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff. ↗

— John Tesh

#covering #everything #i #killer #old

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#brain #creation #emotions #everything #felt

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). ↗

— Joe Tex

#area #born #both #brazil #days

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#being #biology #chain #every #gene