#out

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#history #japan #jazz #know #more

Helping someone is what life is all about. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#helping #life #someone

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#business #first #go #grammar #him

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#distractions #everything #points

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#being #exercise #i #skinny #too

All the things I love is what my business is all about. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#business #i #i love #love #love is

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#minorities #national #other #problem #race