#portable

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#funny #little #pieces #portable #thought

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#been #belonging #filled #had #hour

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#born #conceit #could #filled #half

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #changing #come #constantly #day

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#comfort #condition #every #hope #insupportable

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#becomes #insupportable #love #love is #most

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ↗

— Henry Adams

#get #got #insupportable #obstacles #order

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#had #packing #portable #rendering #talent

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#being #human #human being #ingenious #plumbing