#ought

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. ↗

— Greg Egan

#bit #far-fetched #given #hadn #happened

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#imagine #nature #people #practice #see

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. ↗

— Zac Efron

#bring #did #dork #down #goofy

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#buy #collector #director #his #i

I thought this must be what God looks like. ↗

— George Blanda

#i #like #looks #must #thought

The are no perfect people; only people perfectly willing to point out your imperfections while ignoring their own. ↗

— Faydra D. Fields

#food

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#emotion #every #external #feeling #gesture

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#midnight #mind #our #place #sometimes

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #refresh #some #their #thoughtlessly