“I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.” WritingFeelingsFormInterestCompanyClothesCalmMealsNeglectStable Author:Bertolt Brecht
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.” PeopleKnowsHumansMeanUseFeelingsScienceSpeakLanguageGrowsWonderKnowledgeWonderfulBuildingClothesMathematicsPoolHuman ExperienceEcstatic Author:Steve Jobs
“A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.” IdeasFeelingsShareStageClothesFundamentalsAdmireFraudEmperor Author:Damon Lindelof
“Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.” MenFeelingsBodyAgePainWorstSubjectsClothesTherapyInjuryCigarIrritationWhiskyBagpipes Book:The Diamond Age Source: The Diamond Age
“Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.” PeopleFirstsMomentsFeelingsBigsFilmYoungAudienceDangerousClothesHollywoodMannersRememberedAffectedScotchSlugs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.” IfsFeelsReasonFeelingsPassionInterestPerfectMinutesSubjectsTenClothesConcernRootsDressesComplexesIndifferentTopicsStraightforwardGuardedTouchyOverbearingDeep Roots Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.” WantDifferentFeelingsFallSocialGoalSituationStepsEnvironmentHealthGoes OnComfortableClothesVictimPlanningUnhappyFittingOverweightClarifying Book:Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life