#men

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#anything #dance #i #knee #replacements

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #been #before #comes #enjoyment

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#alternative #custodian #foolish #goals #good

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

Women are sacred. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#women #women are

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#always #am #been #coming #compliments

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his