#nat

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#actress #against #being #frank #frank sinatra

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#alone #bee #bees #clover #few

I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#human #human nature #i #nature

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#ago #because #brought #cannot #district

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#chairman #cut #disaster #endowment #million

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#arts #been #endowment #funding #good

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#command #fellow #fellow human beings #his #human

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. ↗

— de Selby

#death #flann-o-brien #hallucinations #reality #the-third-policeman

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. ↗

— Joan Didion

#minute #paper #possibilities #putting #start