#mis

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#misery #necessity #need #art

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. ↗

— Anthony Marais

#art

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#politics #art

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#misanthropy #art

There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a Dali desert landscape in which three objets trouves reposed at carefully calculated random. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#dali #missile #weapon #art

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. ↗

— Tony Perez

#could #country #family #feel #heat

Sometimes it feels like you can finally slip out of the door, smiling at the memory of that serene expressions of your beloved ones eyes. ↗

— Anshuma Sharma

#experience #happiness #joy #life #love

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ↗

— Cavett Robert

#day #every #every day #good day #just

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

All good things pass away. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#demise #death