#apes

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ↗

— David Byrne

#been #camera #i #landscapes #learned

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#escapes #glad #hopes #life #often

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. ↗

— Robert Caro

#day #every #every day #example #how

He stepped into her line of sight and brushed the robe aside to press a tender kiss on her scarred breast. “They are part of you. I think you are beautiful with them.” “I’m not perfect like other shifters.” “I don’t want perfect because it doesn’t exist in any species. ↗

— Lia Davis

#lia-davis #magick #paranormal-romance #romance #shapeshifter

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#always #fight #grapes #lettuce #never

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#all-star game #back #everything #experience #fast

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#continuing #current #education #even #go

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#budapest #hanging #i #i always #instance

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. ↗

— John Cusack

#because #better #could #done #else