#well

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#always #become #degree #fortunately #gone

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations. ↗

— George Orwell

#write #writing #beauty

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels. ↗

— Spike Lee

#hollywood #one thing #sequels #thing #well

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#own #people #their #trusted #well-informed

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#am #cannot #confident #done #either

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. ↗

— Elton John

#beginning #big #break #carolina #fan

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. ↗

— Elton John

#britain #fair #fair share #had #i

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#doing #everything #get #get well #getting