#turning

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". ↗

— Alan Perlis

#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#always #canvas #fear #finding #had

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#diary #every #every day #i #i do

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#grave #his #lincoln #over #today

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#both #cancer #everything #fighting #get

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#better #growing #just #turning #usual

Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#beauty

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#consists #origin #originality #returning

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #into #mind #turning