#waits

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#bold #conquers #desire #door #each

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#also #bob #bob dylan #brilliant #cool

Amazement awaits us at every corner. ↗

— James Broughton

#amazement #awaits #corner #every #us

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in. ↗

— Ice Cube

#beach #central #city #emerge #long

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#artists #compromise #daily #daily life #defeated