#erm

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. ↗

— George Lucas

#being #dialogue #king #me #screenplays

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#democracy #destinies #determination #develops #direction

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#determines #essentially #held #image #our

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#cold #falls #go #gonna #january

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#get #i #i think #kids #permanent

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appearance #attracted #beneath #concerned #consecutive

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #artistic #artistic expression #china #creative

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#british #british government #brought #determined #down