#stand

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. ↗

— David Antin

#i #more #poems #think #thinking

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#began #directors #i #ignore #liberties

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#beautiful woman #delights #eye #pure #soul

What I have found is that real friends stand by you. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#friends #i #real #real friends #stand

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#board #difference #educate #even #gentlemen

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#also #comedy #day-to-day #done #drama

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#age #become #best #date #examples

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#around #bad #couple #get #got