#pi

Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#writer #writing #writing-life #dreams

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own. ↗

— John Marsden

#funny

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?' ↗

— Heidi Klum

#got #i #just #know #lucky

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? ↗

— Linda Tripp

#commit #conspiring #crime #criminal #document

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#bush #counterterrorism #country #critics #defend

Capital isn't scarce; vision is. ↗

— Sam Walton

#scarce #vision

For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspirational #profound-realizations #beauty

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gentle #inspires #thoughts

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#day #every #every day #find #i

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#inspirational-quotes #interesting-quotes #sorrow #beauty