#bs

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#chemistry #could #dragons #dungeons #engaged

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#did #everyone #germany #happen #happened

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#been #cake #chefs #could #custard

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #allow #any #better

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. ↗

— Michael Caine

#game #grew #i #man #never

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. ↗

— Michael Caine

#go #i #me #mentality #my own

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#defects #everything #excellent #forgive #general

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. ↗

— John Cale

#grabs #into #kind #locked #movement