#eli

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#believed #calm #capacity #cool #coolness

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#blessed #dealing #fame #good #good luck

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. ↗

— Peter Falk

#did #i #i think #john #never

Mania is a wonderful feeling. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#mania #wonderful #wonderful feeling

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#actor #being #believe #compared #embarrassed

The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it. ↗

— Matthew Bright

#because #big #centre #communities #fantasy

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#freedom #freedom of religion #i #i am #includes

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#atheist #beyond #human #i #i am

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. ↗

— David Brin

#backgrounds #characters #depth #develop #erupt

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#did #elsewhere #find #half #hands