#iona

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it. ↗

— Ville Valo

#anything #does #emotional #emotional thing #enjoy

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#education #inspirational #knoweldge #neighbours #university

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. ↗

— David Copperfield

#give #hook #i #magic #stage

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#clean #global #greatest #maintaining #national

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#course #every #every time #excited #fabulous

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. ↗

— Larry Craig

#constitutional #courts #desecration #flag #issue

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #decade #drama #evolutionary #last

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#before #credit #during #fabulous #give