#ect

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down. ↗

— David Copperfield

#choices #clothing #down #ever #gay

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#amount #anyone #because #believe #believe in yourself

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#love #truth #will #life

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#heads #himself #ignorant #knows #lecture

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#be happy #embrace #happy #illusion #must

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#him #life #love #man #men

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#does #effective #every #existence #find