#nothing

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#begin #belongs #better #feel #having

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#done #else #his #man #nothing

There's nothing gratuitous about my films. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #gratuitous #nothing

My exploits are nothing now to the average person. ↗

— David Bailey

#average person #exploits #nothing #now #person

We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had no standards; we were just amazed that it was *our* door, *our* rotting carpet, *our* cockroach infestation... We were excited about getting jobs; we hardly went anywhere without filling out an application. But once we were hired—as furniture sanders—we could hardly believe this was really what people did all day. Everything we had thought of as The World was actually the result of someone's job. Each line on the sidewalk, each saltine. Everyone had rotting carpet and a door to pay for. Aghast, we quit. There had to be a more dignified way to live. We needed time to consider ourselves, to come up with a theory about who we were and to set it to music. ↗

— Miranda July

#life

Without labor nothing prospers. ↗

— Sophocles

#nothing #prospers #without

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out. ↗

— Vance Havner

#ends #grave #kicked #many #nothing

I've never been to the gym. I do nothing. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#gym #i #i do #never #nothing

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#ceased #conversation #day #divorce #left