#sca

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#earth #people #scarce #sir #without

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#irs #me #only #scare #things

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#fail #heights #mountains #out #recognize

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#consciousness #landscape #like #readers #state

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#lead #may #terrorism #violent

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#because #bundle #comedy #favorite #full

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#education #even #expense #fiscal #just

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#i #life #my life #scandal

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#control #feel #i #i love #just