#upon

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#after #college #depression #descend #i

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#artist #draw #enough #freely #i

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#inscription #man #tomb #upon #write

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#africa #because #been #believed #circumstances

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#basic #commitment #enlightened #future #heritage

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #moral #moral evil #physical #upon

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. ↗

— Tom Ford

#focus #life #once #president #private