#able

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere! ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#back #carried #everywhere #got #her

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#formidable #grace #mixture #only #place

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#back #days #everything #film #get

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#alone #because #concern #express #expressed

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online. ↗

— John Doolittle

#appear #charge #control #could #countries

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#answer #asked #bat #before #had

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#before #bottom #bottom line #budget #challenges

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first