The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
Recitation: by Male by Female
My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
Joe R. Lansdale
FatherCarPeopleLookingBlackYou
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
John McDonald
PowerWorldEnvironmentFindCreate
I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
WorkMovingThinkAir ForceOverUp
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
Michael Gove
PeopleThank YouYouDoneOutWell
Generally, achieving goals... which in many cases means winning... is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
Tom Landry
LifeGoalsLiveWinningAchieving
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Mason Cooley
PhonePlayHardGetSoonRinging
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those.
Lisa Lutz
HappyStartAccidentsLeaveRoom
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
Joni Eareckson Tada
CultureDayDeathDieEvery Day
I share more than most people probably do online.
Colleen Ballinger
PeopleMoreShareOnlineMostThan
I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty.
Anthony Joshua
FamilyHomeManSomeoneGymI Can
I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it.
Synyster Gates
CoolThinkFeelKnowUsCool Thing
I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
Susan Straight
LoveAmericaSeeingVoteClass
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