#ld

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#great #held #honor #interprets #man

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. ↗

— James Thurber

#armchair #attic #future #guess #old

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #could #different #foreign #intrinsically

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. ↗

— John Engler

#could #detroit #failing #i #i wish

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#dublin #find #more #more and more #old

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. ↗

— John Huston

#coming #controlling #day #die #directing

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. ↗

— John Engler

#complete #education #example #instinctively #knows

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#against #anything #art #artist #ever

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#city #cold #nice #only #really

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#any #because #college #college student #credit