#rio

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#expectation #groups #mutually #poetry #political

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#going #had #jihad #just #know

I had had a classical education prior to that. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#education #had #i #prior

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#always #funny #happen #hilarious #just

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american people #assure #chicken #control #counterparts

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bloody #buzzard #confounded #even #hawk

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#baroque #decoration #interior #over #prose

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#began #calm #curious #doing #end

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#honest #i #i can #incredibly #life

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#curious #i #i think #passionately #should