#vent

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. ↗

— Dane Cook

#did #explore #i #need #other

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. ↗

— David Crane

#after #age #amazing #another #college

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#been #changed #feelings #had #i

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#bar #best #candidates #country #eventual

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events. ↗

— Dario Fo

#aim #always #borders #completely #contribute

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#against #art #born #breakthroughs #go

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation. ↗

— Stan Freberg

#blue #changed #color #hood #investigation

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. ↗

— Marilyn French

#art #different #emotions #events #fix