#bout

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#about #american #best #brightest #century

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#across #exactly #generations #i #know

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#about #childhood #decisions #head #i

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#complicated #context #fact #issue #opinions

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#buying #friends #i #know #me

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#cake #fun #hobby #just #sunshine

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#feel #how #important #make #more

[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#life

You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively: that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts. The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s. ↗

— Blake Morrison

#twelve-thoughts-about-reading #life

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#also #arnold #because #dumb #even