#pear

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#first #genetics #get #guy #made

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. ↗

— Amy Grant

#appears #based #especially #every #good

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#available #believe #did #enabled #explain

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#comes #did #even #got #i

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#black #black and white #create #doing #fancy