#ali

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand. ↗

— James Payn

#anyone #be careful #careful #catastrophe #good

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#always #end #go #i #i love

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#each #other #reality #shaped #thinkers

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#american citizens #averaging #citizens #crimes #day

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you. ↗

— Katy Perry

#fake #hawking #hollywood #into #just

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#beauty #i #i think #issue #morality

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. ↗

— River Phoenix

#anyone #clean #could #else #house

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ↗

— River Phoenix

#control #enough #i #irrational #kids

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#going #illusion #like #real #reality

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come