#paris

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beauty #comparison #relation

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#amsterdam #because #flights #fly #flying

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#happiness #only #past #present #shattered

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#approved #because #being #bring #children

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#creed #intelligible #light #me #much

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#comparison #front #inside #lies #you

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. ↗

— Milos Forman

#claude #i #jean #left #paris

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream