#owing

I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ↗

— Dziga Vertov

#eye #i #i am #i can #likes

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#except #growing #growing up #had #i

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#burn #clueless #everything #feeling #going

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#constantly #degree #growing #growing up #important

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? ↗

— Seymoure Cray

#field #oxen #plowing #rather #strong

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#been #eventually #initially #knowing #learn