#den

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#either #favourite #i #i write #influenced

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#beginning #come #david #early #goes

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right? ↗

— Barack Obama

#control #everything #held #i #i think

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#believe #bragging #conceit #confidence #done

Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#disgust #italy #romance #age

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good. ↗

— Al Unser

#again #ankle #bit #bones #break

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#committee #determine #incidents #left #nasa

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bin #got #happened #laden #spies

When the student is ready... the lesson appears. ↗

— Gene Oliver

#lesson #ready #student

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i