#han

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

#box #certain #cigarette #contains #human

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#blight #blossoms #cheerful #count #far

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#balcony #calling #edge #farther #flight

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#changed #dorky #i #i always #mostly

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#area #birth #boston #died #either

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#buddy holly #early #holly #i #lighter

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#art #back #basically #big #enough

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#bad #bad time #book #fiction #go