#ak

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#bad #because #detest #go #i

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fighters #hands #kiss #prize #reminds

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#confirmed #does #establishment #even #experiment

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#different kind #feel #i #i feel #kind

I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#decisions #door #girl #girl next door #i

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big movie #down #fun #game #give

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#i #lifetime #making #movie #only

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#cost #going #just #know #loads