#tin

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#painting #river #death

I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it. ↗

— Torrie Wilson

#embarrassed #fan #fun #guy #him

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day. ↗

— Torrie Wilson

#apple #between #day #eating #i

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #writing #inspirational

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#chooses #destiny #every #every man #everywhere

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#artist #author #hobby #mom #mother

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#attracts #people #shy #shy people

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #i always #like #poetry #putting

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#bad situation #blues #every #happen #situation

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so frequent, the diversity of voices I engage with is far higher than in the pre-Internet age—and all this has helped me become more modest as a thinker, more open to error, less fixated on what I do know, and more respectful of what I don't. If this is a deterioration in my brain, then more, please. "The problem is finding the space and time when this engagement stops, and calm, quiet, thinking and reading of longer-form arguments, novels, essays can begin. Worse, this also needs time for the mind to transition out of an instant gratification mode to me a more long-term, thoughtful calm. I find this takes at least a day of detox. Getting weekends back has helped. But if there were a way to channel the amazing insights of blogging into the longer, calmer modes of thinking ... we'd be getting somewhere. "I'm working on it. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#blogging #essays #humility #internet #media