#na

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#depends #extend #finally #human #human life

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. ↗

— James Ellroy

#books #bunch #i #i love #important

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#moonlight #nature #winter #witches #beauty

If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that? ↗

— Lauren B. Davis

#writers #writing #beauty

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#around #aside #because #comforting #enact

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#attitude #bring #china #cold #cold war

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#dropped #due #eight #financial #formal

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#children #feel #find #found #good

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. ↗

— Barack Obama

#courage