There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
BILL PULLMAN -
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER -
It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.
DONALD TRUMP -
One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSY -
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we’d have a better world.
ADORA SVITAK -
You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
PAT CONROY -
A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.
ELVIS PRESLEY -
We run things, things don’t run we.
MILEY CYRUS -
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
DREW BARRYMORE -
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
PLATO -
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL -
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR -
My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.
GEORGE SAUNDERS






