#ike

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#flux #intellect #itself #keeps #like

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#because #best #best way #come #dry

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#drive #especially #every #grim #i

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#comedies #i #like #more #than

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they? ↗

— Alan Cumming

#always #arkansas #boy #cannot #earth

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#hollywood #i #invited #like #me

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#charges #comes #drilling #easily #how

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#i #ideas #libertarian #like #lot

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ↗

— Marie Curie

#discoveries #draw #evil #good #humanity