#ali

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that! ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#girlfriends #got #had #i #mean

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film-making #found #i #inspiring #more

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#had #i #invited #italian #learn

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#argument #congressman #essentially #idea #industry

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cart #like #shopping #steal #stealing

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#equality #everybody #identifying #people #thinks

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#having #life #most #out #realization