#elle

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#common people #excellent #keeping #people #quiet

I excelled in English while I was at school. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#excelled #i #school #while

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#elegant #embodies #engaging #her #i

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#always #cannot #except #ideal #incessant

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#michelle-hodkin #the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer #funny

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗

— Luc Besson

#because #commercial #film #films #i

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affected #degree #high #high degree #independence

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#self-esteem #excellence

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers