#resting

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#any #arresting #beings #believes #comment

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#interesting #new #thinking #vacation #equality

This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting. ↗

— Michael David Lukas

#interesting #experience

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#interesting #pain #friendship

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boat #flying #i #interesting #interesting people

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy. ↗

— Scott O'Dell

#interesting #inspirational

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #interesting #inspirational

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#could #crazy #environment #exotic #had

'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' ↗

— Matthew Pearl

#interesting #inspirational

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. ↗

— Hegel

#economics-philosophy #hegel #innovative #interesting #philosophy