#led

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. ↗

— Brian Eno

#away #back #country #dozing #england

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#always #bag #bit #could #days

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#had #inarticulate #lifetime #memories #once

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#because #cooper #crucial #else #exactly

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#ever #gun #having #i #life

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#darkness #knowledge #only #separates #us

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arab world #desire #does #healthy #knowledge

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#better #cholesterol #cooked #dance #diet

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#become #concerned #gonna #life #people