#tally

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#dragging #ill #mentally #position #world

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#approaching #basically #concerts #doing #i

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #becomes #blot #ink #into

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be strong #course #day #every #every day

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#around #children #couple #curious #die

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#before #camera #digitally #documentary #done

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #city #fundamentally #hill #into

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#fundamentally #need #restore #transform

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#business #commanding #concentration #exactly #focusing