#passing

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows. ↗

— Chris Ware

#billboards #everything #hate #i #laziness

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bits #blew #circle #crowd

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#clouds #gray #just #over #passing

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#documentary #endangered #endangered species #enormous #had

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#different #different people #i #laws #myself

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#being #beings #constant #like #nothing

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#beyond #capable #consists #dividing #dividing line

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#blue-eyed #felt #girl #i #i am