#ear

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#bows #dust #enthusiasm #fear #give

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film? ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doing #earth #explain #film #get

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#amount #happened #i #i write #involves

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#audience #day #different #different kinds #ever

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#back #baseball #designated #enough #everyone

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. ↗

— Moliere

#ignorant #learned #more #than

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. ↗

— Moliere

#pray #scholarly #speak #talk #understood

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. ↗

— Moliere

#ever #everything #having #know #learned

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. ↗