#sum

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#community #culture #journeys #national #national community

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#consumerism #culture #demand #depth #marketing

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by. ↗

— Fred Durst

#bill #car #consumed #getting #know

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #breeding #burgundy #domestic #i

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#before #change #culinary #culinary school #decision

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christian #especially #hand #man #other

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#always #aware #concerned #feet #future