#han

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#handed #me #nothing #ordeal #these

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #because #certain #certain degree #degree

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. ↗

— Tom Ford

#dog #go #hand #i #live

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. ↗

— Tom Ford

#great #great changes #politically #responsible #socially

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think. ↗

— Willa Ford

#changes #course #formed #girl #hang

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be. ↗

— George Foreman

#choose #discovered #hardest #i #nature

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#beginning #continue #end #novel #other

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it. ↗

— James Forrestal

#circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #europe #faced

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#more #paganism #piety #than

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#emergencies #equip #expense #joy #life