#some

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#choose #great #great mind #important #life

We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had no standards; we were just amazed that it was *our* door, *our* rotting carpet, *our* cockroach infestation... We were excited about getting jobs; we hardly went anywhere without filling out an application. But once we were hired—as furniture sanders—we could hardly believe this was really what people did all day. Everything we had thought of as The World was actually the result of someone's job. Each line on the sidewalk, each saltine. Everyone had rotting carpet and a door to pay for. Aghast, we quit. There had to be a more dignified way to live. We needed time to consider ourselves, to come up with a theory about who we were and to set it to music. ↗

— Miranda July

#life

I sometimes get very protective of the people I play. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #people #play #protective #sometimes

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. ↗

— John Haggai

#doomed #failure #god #impossible #something

How stupid, I thought dreamily, to have ever thought I could give this up. Not just the kissing, although, as Archer’s hands cupped my face, I had to admit that part was pretty awesome. But all of it: joking with him and working beside him. Being with a guy who was my friend and could stil make me feel like this. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#lovers #awesome

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#awesome

Jackass!" Eve yelled. "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," Shane said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#awesome

Raziel’s sixty feet tall?” “Actually, he’s only fifty-nine feet tall, but he likes to exaggerate,” said Magnus. Isabelle clicked her tongue in annoyance. “Valentine raised an angel in his cellar. I don’t see why you need all this space—” “Because Valentine is just WAY MORE AWESOME than me, ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #tmi #awesome

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#classic #godfather #awesome

Baseball is only dull to dull minds ↗

— Red Barber

#awesome