#mm

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

#complicated #creativity #making #simple

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#again #communicated #confidence #emotion #enlightenment

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#classic #door #embarrassed #emma #everyone

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. ↗

— James Monroe

#commence #complete #did #ever #favorable

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#attempting #banging #caused #felt #fries

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world. ↗

— Keith Moon

#am #cannot #drummers #greatest #heart

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'. ↗

— Alan Moore

#anything #called #carl #course #example