#sf

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. ↗

— Carre Otis

#disorders #dissatisfaction #eating #general #life

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. ↗

— Ovid

#call #confess #heart #i #misfortune

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear. ↗

— Clive Owen

#because #clear #objectives #satisfying #shooting

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#comments #give #headline #i #joined

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#any #conscious #generality #i #i am

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?' ↗

— Buck Owens

#anybody #come #country #country music #done

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#content #craving #earth #envy #exiles

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#area #because #does #going #just