"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."

-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Understanding Quotes #World Quotes #Action Quotes

“Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.”
“Marriage is the tomb of friendship.”

Source : Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34
“Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.”
“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”
“I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.”
“No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.”
“I keep mementos from everything I've done.”

Source : "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. April 2012.
“I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.”

Source : Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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