#mine

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#mine #need #ourselves #poetry #ways

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#ancient greeks #course #either #examined #fascinating

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#child #coal #complain #define #else

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another man #ask #i #life #live

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#buy #coal #easier #farm #get

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#actor #becomes #de niro #described #even

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#fortunate #how #i #life #mine

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#clothes #doing #fellow #get #her

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#death #famine #life #order #our

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#corrected #distinction #distinctions #doubt #entitled