#fin

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ↗

— River Phoenix

#except #few #few people #find #hysterical

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#day #evolution #finds #itself #knowledge

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#class #class distinctions #concerned #discriminate #distinctions

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#air #announcements #children #could #decency

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard. ↗

— Midge Ure

#down #expression #fingers #get #give

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #carpet #find #footing #going

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage