#wit

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#commissions #conditions #creating #greatest #having

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #bands #based #clearly #come

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#beholden #engaged #i #i think #make

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#cares #conventional #conventional wisdom #either #football

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ↗

— Albert Camus

#asking #charm #clear #getting #question

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#children #focus #gifts #greatest #greatest achievement

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ↗

— James Madison

#both #farce #government #information #means

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#evokes #exist #mystery #which #without

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body