#ours

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#life #ourselves #prefer #seriously #take

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#continuous #courses #followed #intuitions #make

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#big #big ideas #get #ideas #involved

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#complete #easier #else #live #someone

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ↗

— George W. Bush

#distinctions #done #honours #i #president

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves. ↗

— Dan Butler

#challenge #our #ourselves #responsibility

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#because #bed #five #getting #had

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions