Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.
ACHY OBEJASHeaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER -
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKER -
We’re not perfect, we’re not clean cut. We’re just trying to be ourselves.
LOUIS TOMLINSON -
I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
ALLEN IVERSON -
Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKA -
All this time I’ve just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.
BEA ARTHUR -
I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
BEN STILLER -
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.
BEN FELDMAN -
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
BHARTRHARI -
When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
TINA FEY -
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG -
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
RACHEL CARSON