#kin

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#coming #golden #golden age #instrument #making

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. ↗

— Dan Savage

#conformist #first #gender #goes #kindergarten

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#color #drinking #drinking water #every #just

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' ↗

— John Sayles

#door #had #here #i #i remember

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#big #big family #child #coming #family

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#conscience #constitution #draw #experience #good

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#believe #get #just #kind #lucky

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#africa #aware #both #concrete #doing