#y

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am ↗

— Matthew Quick

#poetry #life

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#demands #essential #individual #link #mass

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes. ↗

— Paul Eluard

#close #eyes #i #live #more

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. ↗

— John Elway

#because #doing #learn #lot #lows

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey. ↗

— Bai Ling

#because #chinese #chinese culture #culture #follow

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#get #mistake #most #rid #uncover

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! ↗

— Ben Elton

#advice #again #anyone #away #learnt

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ↗

— Ben Elton

#i wish #never #ok #perhaps #silly