#any

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#conventional #go #go home #home #more

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist. ↗

— Chris Brown

#because #compare #ever #gonna #hate

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#believe #bill #catholic #catholics #claiming

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that. ↗

— James Caan

#anyone #best #family #fault #find

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#california #done

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all. ↗

— James Cameron

#director #filmmaker #had #i #makes

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. ↗