#w

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#academy award #age #award #contract #got

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#rainbows #span #tears #till #veil

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#course #first #might #nothing #occupy

Life is a tragedy of nutrition ↗

— Arnold Ehret

#freedom #health #nutrition #wellness #freedom

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ↗

— Doug Larson

#even #feel #full #like #shoe

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you"ve given up something. ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963 ↗

— Legs McNeil

#change

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #first #learning #nothing #winning

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#had #i #myself #natural #pilot

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#fondest #glittering #objects #weak