#ms

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dreams #expected #i #i write #just

Need a ride home?" "Yes." But she keeps sitting there. "Let's go." "You're taking me?" "It's a pretty standard way of offering," I say. "I wasn't asking for informational purposes. Fascinating as the answer was. ↗

— Ingrid Paulson

#home

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#deeply #does #great #great problems #him

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs. ↗

— Jim Talent

#because #clear #continue #done #federal

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#demons #himself #human #human beings #like

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

I usually think in terms of music. ↗

— Shane West

#music #terms #think #usually

think think think until you blink ↗

— ganeshsaidheeraj

#love #men-rights #poems #science #women

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#done #express #himself #his #honestly