#iving

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#again #art #counts #days #driving

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#also #artist #awake #continual #dignity

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#because #iraqi #iraqi people #legacy #living

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#art #attention #commanding #conversation #easily

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#country #globalized #internally #living #say

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

#acting #became #comfortable #enjoyable #i

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#beings #capable #complete #deepest #fulfill

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car. ↗

— Jenson Button

#car #driving #f1 #fact #feeling

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#literature #living #our #our time #problems