#hee

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#better #head #lion #lions #sheep

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hath #i #immortality #life #love

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at. ↗

— Celine Dion

#beautiful #cheering #everybody #hugging #i

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#humor #meat #stinky-cheese #food

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. ↗

— William Drummond

#art #part #really #study #thee

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#favorite things #rifle #steering #things #two

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs