#bse

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#diet #gymnast #healthier #i #obsessive

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#actually #although #am #bit #feels

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#asks #comparison #expansion #extension #fear

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#admit #comes #curiosity #full-on #getting

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#difference #fantasy #i #magic #obsessed