“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.” ArtPlayPainLife IsSufferingMorningStudyGoes OnGet UpCrapWorth LivingPain And Suffering Author:Brian Sutton-Smith
“... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.” StudyGoes OnDiscoveryPhilosophicalAbstractSublimeEmploying Book:Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope Source: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
“... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.” ThinkingLittlesTwoWholeNightHouseHoursRoomsStudyGoes OnBedDrawingFeminineShut UpObservance Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
“A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'” MayFacesStudyRiskMiddleGoes OnVictoryAdultsStrategyDrinkingIraqEntitledMiddle AgedDementiaBinge Author:Tina Fey
“That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.” EndsStudyBuildingGoes OnKingsThirdsDrinkingCoffeeTennisBranchesArticlesEnd TimesAvenuesBurgersDrinking CoffeeBurger King Author:Paul Samuelson
“I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.” PeopleKnowsShowsBigsGuyGirlForceWatchesStudyFansStageGoes OnPoliceScareNuts Author:Bruno Mars
“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.” IfsShouldHardNaturalChanceSimpleStudyOur LivesGoes OnExerciseSentencesLeapBreaking DownTranscendenceAccuracyFugue Author:Adrienne Rich
“I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.” ThinkingI CanBookReadingAsksStudyGoes OnExcuse Author:George Packer
“It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.” IfsWorldWayDoeHelpingStudyGoes OnUselessVainSurveys Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable