#cop

'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. ↗

— Joe Wright

#believe #come #cop-out #cultural #ending

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#leading #really #rise #risen #should

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#copying #could #i #interests #know

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bigger #eye #human #human being #makes

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#come #hubble #i #i believe #other

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#improve #model #other #people #seldom

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#existence #ford #francis #never

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#divorce #family #indissoluble #laws #made