#something

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#every #feel #less #like #moment

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#centuries #contemporary #context #epiphany #exciting

Before I die, I want to at least have saved Cascade. Once all the crowns are found, then I will tell her. I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#beauty #cascade #crown #crowns #death

I'm worried that God ain't as expected by men. ↗

— Toba Beta

#men-expect-something #men

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing. ↗

— Meg Jay

#psychology #twentysomethings #nature

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#bored #does #else #failures #i

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#democratic process #everybody #happy #process #something

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#die #get #having #i #just

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ↗