#mo

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. ↗

— Martha Graham

#artists-quotes #disatisfaction #empowerment #inspirational #motivation

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art. ↗

— Libba Bray

#cinnamon-buns #death #fries #i-m-with-stupid #ketchup

I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you. ↗

— Molly Harper

#harper #love #molly #tomorrow #art

He[Crystal's father] had found my height amusing, referring to me as his "little girl" at every opportunity even though I could see the bald patch on top of his head fringed by curls when we stood side by side. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#funny-humour #height #joss #sterling #tall

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humor #ruins #rusty #funny

I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms." He turns and leaves the kitchen before I can figure out what to make of his comment. A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor is corny makes it even more wrong. ↗

— Susan Ee

#humor #witty #humor

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotions #life #art

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#book #i #like #only #really

The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation. ↗

— Naomi Novik

#humourous-situations #funny

Just assume that you don’t know anything – that’s a good place to start from in any situation. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art