#act

The bark on the tree was just a little softer. ↗

— Louis Sachar

#character #friendship #punishment #friendship

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boat #flying #i #interesting #interesting people

People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face. "You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isn't my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. You've even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But you're not, are you?" "I hope not," I said. "You see, there you go again. You're a smart-arse and you've no ability to filter your thoughts---" "And my thoughts are often abrasive." "Exactly." "I'll just get my brushes and sponges and leave." "If you would. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humorous #turn-of-phrase #way-with-words #family

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#divorce #dysfunction #family #family

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family #heritage #identity #morality #past

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! ↗

— Stella Atrium

#characters #writing #writing-craft #writing-life #family

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja? ↗

— Sarah Price

#character #impress #family

The family is the cradle of the world"s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#family #information #knowledge #family

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#food #potatoes #food

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#everyone #facts #his #opinion #own