#tempting

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#classic #complete #instead #make #museums

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#cannot #doing #dressed #getting #getting dressed

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

#cold #cold iron #desire #hammering #inspiring

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#areas #around #attempting #dangerous #different

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. ↗

— Roger Moore

#film #film set #set #tempting #things

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#attorneys #claims #companies #consumers #deceive

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect