#thing

Nothing can come of nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nothing

Cartooning is an honorable thing. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#honorable #thing

So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#little #much #such #things

Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae; he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life. & just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#life #nothingness #poetry #life

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#head #i #i do #i think #something

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#closet #every #everything #four #garage

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#each #him #himself #life #look

The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave. ↗

— Ron Currie Jr.

#choice #everything-matters #life #move #ron-currie-jr

[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities. ↗

— John le Carré

#life