#eve

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#everything #hanks #hannah #i #learned

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#always #been #book #buying #even

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#business #comfort #constant #constant need #get

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#conversation #ever #having #i #like

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#i #i think #love #think #thirties

Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless you enliven and enlighten your life with inspiration, bring your dreams into reality through the power of desire you will never shine as bright as your potential. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#desire #dreams #enlive #immense #inspairation

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #constantly #heard #i #i think

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.' ↗

— Paul Theroux

#changed #child #ever #filled #first