#thing

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#before #different #different kind #happy #history

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. ↗

— Layne Staley

#andrew #changed #death #even #few

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#god #gratifies #never #something #tell

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that. ↗

— Thora Hird

#anything #foul #good #i #language

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. ↗

— David Hockney

#everything #got #i #moment #off

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#feel #once #really #see #then

I am a part of everything that I have read. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#everything #i #i am #part #read

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#i #large #look #poets #simple