#art

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything

Part of courage is simple consistency. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#courage #part #simple

Silence is the unbearable repartee. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#silence #unbearable

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#boring #bus #everyone #get #getting

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible. ↗

— Diana Ross

#apartment #black #business #buy #children

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ↗

— Malcom X

#control #earth #entity #guilty #innocent

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments. ↗

— Jana Novotna

#junior #maybe #only #play #started

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. ↗

— David Thewlis

#books #first #flat #good #good idea

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#been #build #by the time #come #company

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#diverse #everybody #feel #generation #i