#ron

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#democratic process #everybody #happy #process #something

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. ↗

— Steven Wright

#irony #nobel-peace-prize #humor

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. ↗

— René Descartes

#humor #irony #humor

I can be humbler than anyone. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humility #humor #irony #humor

I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyse. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #art

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#character #first #first of all #follow #hopefully

Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself through practise and hard work. I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you. ↗

— Master Tan Soh Tin

#martial-arts #master-iain-armstrong #art

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#artist #exhibition #irony #persona #success

You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose. ↗

— Lisa Cach

#strong #woman #life

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action ↗

— Philip Larkin

#life