#venti

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love #love

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. ↗

— Paul Daniels

#creation #even #great #great strain #into

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

#invention #inventors #science #science

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#individuality #invention #beauty

Sometimes, a war saves people. ↗

— José Ramos-Horta

#humanitarianism #pacifism #war #iraq

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#change #changes #come #different #i

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ↗

— Plato

#any #anything #came #come #did

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#domestic #iraq #iraq war #over #prevention