#sk

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! ↗

— Anatole France

#art #chance #come #could #earth

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#been #digested #i #influenced #lambs

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#fatal #finished #half #nothing #tasks

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#because #die #do you know #france #germans

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. ↗

— William Gibson

#color #dead #port #sky #station

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ↗

— Sheilah Graham

#created #desperately #energy #enough #exuberance

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#seem #short #sky #someone #support

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#freshman #freshman year #high #high school #i

The only risk we run is by doing nothing. ↗

— Brian Higgins

#nothing #only #risk #run

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something. ↗