#tent

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#consistently #lot #people #work

I'm just happy to be working consistently. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#happy #i #just #working

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning. ↗

— Fred Upton

#beginning #china #continues #costs #efforts

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#different-lives #discontentment #happiness #life #night

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#embarrassingly #list #major #parties #party

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#content #everybody #nobody #paris #spectator

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#attention #been #i #lost #lot

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. ↗

— Paul Valery

#content #fire #humidity #own #people