#hip

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. ↗

— John Milton

#brag #courts #feasts #high #may

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#down #i #like #looked #meeting

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#chip #dismiss #ellington #gershwin

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#art #direction #great #great art #just

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#course #focused #god #had #her

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#been #cows #disease #get #gonna

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blind #closes #eyes #love #love is

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed