#age

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#always #celibacy #horse #lake #marriage

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#character #director #etc #every #every time

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#enjoy #find #i #movies #story

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#best work #character #create #doing #entirely

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#door #every #every time #garage #goes

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#i #kind #much #question #shape

The average man is not hard to mystify. ↗

— Howard Thurston

#average man #hard #man #mystify

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me. ↗

— Gary Ross

#back #fail #films #haunted #interesting

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#between #change #course #depend #even