#thou

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#i #lot #medium #pen #preferred

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#firm #mercy #only #racial #stand

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#excellence #good #inspires #made #manly

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important. ↗

— Jo Brand

#even #i #i always #important #look

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. ↗

— Jo Brand

#come #different #great #i #i remember

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#many #most #something #them #thinking

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #border #fifty #five #had

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#character #character actor #i #like #myself

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#means #nothing #sadder #standards #than