#lee

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#even #fairy-tale #had #hollow #lot

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #creation #emotion #everything #fleeting

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#silence #sleep #wisdom

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ↗

— Joan Baez

#been #come #crawled #down #good

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#cold #dawn #evening #flowers #frivolity

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american foreign policy #bush #communism #condoleezza #condoleezza rice

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#before #cartoonist #cartoons #draw #friend

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. ↗

— Clara Barton

#ball #between #body #chest #cutting

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#based #commerce #even #like #religion

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#bit #country #daily #daily work #doing