#bit

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#bite #everything #fearful #glass #i

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#events #humane #just #more #rational

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#black #black and white #characters #close #experience

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#achieve #actually #ambition #awkward #course

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#career #characters #dictators #enjoyed #exist

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#i #little #little bit #suffer #will

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ↗

— Robert Collier

#against #bit #encouragement #goal #knows