#same

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ↗

— Petrarch

#disgust #mother #sameness #variety

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#because #care #drive #i #i can

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#clear #egg #finishes #following #form

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#again #back #brave #century #consider

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#beautiful place #feeling #goes #i #place

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#direction #hollywood #i #just #like

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#bigger #crowds #difference #just #now

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#attack #before #brain #brain damage #chest

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not. ↗

— Alain Prost

#beginning #during #i #i always #know