"i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people"

-- Marge Piercy

#Depressing Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.”
“I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.”
“You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.”
“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”
“The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance”
“I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things so I don't have a stylist.”
“We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.”
“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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