#iv

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm? ↗

— Vince Neil

#am #chances #charm #few #five

Live every day as if they last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational-attitude #life #attitude

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

#destroyed #generally #gross #nature #poetry

Il ne s'agit point de t'offusquer de ce que l'un diffère de l'autre, de ce que les aspirations de l'un s'opposent aux aspirations de l'autre, de ce que le langage de l'un ne soit point le langage de l'autre, il s'agît de t'en réjouir. Car si te voilà créateur tu batiras un temple de portée plus haute qui sera leur commune mesure. Mais je dis aveugle celui-là qui s'imagine créer s'il démonte la cathédrale et aligne dans l'ordre par rang de taille les pierres l'une après l'autre. (chapitre LXXV) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#society #imagination

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#bad #bad rap #enjoy #gets #here

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#am #been #certainly #fond #generous

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint. ↗

— Martin Mull

#day #gives #job #me #more

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. ↗

— Joan Marques

#life #perspective #art

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#always #asks #choices #come #dialogue