#ill

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#expedient #go #labor #man #thinking

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#actually #annoys #even #go #i

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. ↗

— Philo

#cities #countries #enjoyed #fill #free

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. ↗

— River Phoenix

#anyone #clean #could #else #house

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ↗

— River Phoenix

#control #enough #i #irrational #kids

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. ↗

— Christian Dior

#pale #pink #prevail #tones #turquoise

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#big #bottom #down #dramatically #fall

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#kids #know #like #looked #many

They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide. ↗

— Antonio Pigafetta

#guide #killed #light #mirror #our