#musing

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#amusing #challenging #constantly #difficult #insane

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#another #ask #communicate #entertaining #experience

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. ↗

— William Shatner

#amusing #everybody #i #i am #loud

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad. ↗

— Grace Slick

#another #find #get #i #level

I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#musings #life

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] ↗

— Kresley Cole

#humor #philosophical-musings #humor

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws. ↗

— Edward Morris

#awesomeness #inspirational #inspirational

...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it... ↗

— John Geddes

#musing #soul-mate #the-one #love