#our lives

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#avoid #brains #doing #i #ideas

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #big #big cars #big hair #boxes

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. ↗

— Alveda King

#both #error #fundamental #getting #human

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#asking #countries #developing #engage #how

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#child #either #extraordinary #hold #i

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #completely #confident #go #hopeless

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#above #beyond #concern #economy #grow

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#develop #each #excesses #extremes #free

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#children #courage #house #into #lives