#only

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#eating #ever #form #me #most

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#genius #only #talent #wants #whatever

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody. ↗

— Mos Def

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #misfortunes #only #register

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#collaborates #copy #draw #far #imagination

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#child #crap #dodge #getting #grow

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#before #grew #grow #make #only

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#before #between #constructed #construction #created

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#butterflies #free #i #only

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#external #external world #mere #only #perspective