#age

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mixture #statement

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. ↗

— David Bowie

#astounded #i #i think #image #jagger

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. ↗

— David Bowie

#become #camp #camper #departure #did

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#beginning #creating #doing #here #impress

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#behave #flamboyant #give #give me #i

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#great idea #i #i think #idea #institution

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#demoralizing #expensive #far #how #man

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#father #financial #manager #mother #office