#make

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#count #four #know #make #men

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#art #contemporary #difference #enough #generation

Very likely education does not make very much difference. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#does #education #likely #make #much

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#make #reason #reply #theirs #why

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#book writing #business #horse #horse racing #like

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dealers #left #make #new #washington

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #exalted #i #i am #image

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love