#thing

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#carry #certain #cockroaches #door #energy

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#besides #consists #done #elimination #getting

Art is not a thing; it is a way. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#thing #way

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#nada #nothing #prayer #art

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#existential #existentialism #life #metaphor #life

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#art #artsist #breath #breathing #designer

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#funny #inappropriate #nothing #then #write

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#things #art

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#been #close #done #ever #everything