#times

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. ↗

— Terry Southern

#middle #out #party #river #several

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory. ↗

— Marisa Calin

#friendship #love #tough-times #friendship

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#business #certain #certain point #couple #figure

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#pillow #support #tough #tough-times #inspirational

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#could #crazy #environment #exotic #had

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss. ↗

— Charles Martin

#thorns #tough-life #tough-times #worth #life

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have. ↗

— Andrew Matthews

#happiness #happiness-in-hard-times #life

God and other artists are always a little obscure..... ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#quote-of-all-times #art