#we

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#being #between #champions #difference #face

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #material #poster #see #short

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#answer #around #back #e-mail #four

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#anyone #back #beach #bread #canvas

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#atrocious #bad #case #chance #completely

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. ↗

— Homer

#bad thing #concerned #even #much #sleep

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#actually #breakfast #breakfast cereal #caught #cereal

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. ↗

— Russel Honore

#bad #cold #economy #fragile #hot

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve