#say

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#audience #concerned #how #look #much

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#imagine #no-matter-what-you-say #no-metter-what-you-do #sara-quin #stop-the-world-for-a-moment

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#emotion #essay #expression #poetry #talent

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#definitely #football #i #oakland #punk

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#bucks #company #easily #falling #get

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#always #anything #does #expert #facts

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#believe #better #closer #death #died

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#avoiding #being #feeling #i #just

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' ↗

— Maria Montessori

#able #children #did #exist #greatest