#sign

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#being #father #happy #life #living

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#crack #crawling #crooked #designer #fixing

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#america #bold #competition #depression #design

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. ↗

— Leo Fender

#each #easy #element #make #order

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#asked #audience #books #boston #furniture

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#better life #democrats #designed #equalizer #families

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#event #fraction #me #photography #recognition

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#care #deepest #feel #gives #i