#ours

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#bark #branches #coming #course #foliage

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#course #die #draw #end #everybody

I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#away #doing #going #going away #hours

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #black #course #i #knew

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself. ↗

— David Strickland

#keep #something #you #yourself

I took a lot of writing courses. ↗

— Danny Strong

#i #lot #took #writing