#thou

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. ↗

— Russell Banks

#artistic #become #began #boy #drifted

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. ↗

— Sai Baba

#already #create #created #every #exists

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#even #few #gotten #great #i

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. ↗

— Jane Austen

#cannot #laughing #man #now #now and then

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#agreement #barren #co-operation #discovery #fun

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#end #entire #even #family #had

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#country #day #i #majority #opposed

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#conceptual #content #few #few things #hard

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#always #cabinet #change #different #driver