#tent

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#attention #being #being funny #deformed #funny

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#attention #bad #did #experience #grabbing

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#existed #hadn #horribly #i #invented

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note. ↗

— William Billings

#first #great #key #must #note

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #black #certain #certain extent #class

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain extent #extent #got #heroes #i

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fixed #good #intent #plans #traveler

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#because #feel #flash #i #i do