#ants

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#comedy #ended #existence #exorcist #me

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#asked #change #changing #i #life

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#god #hottest #me #thing #things

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. ↗

— William Bligh

#augmented #caution #conduct #did #general

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#city #inhabitants #loves #world

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#mad #progress #public #wants

Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#ally #clear #clear message #close #close friend

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#content #extremely #films #graphic #historical

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists