#exact

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#attention #comes #draw #exactly #hand

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #best #doing #exact #exact opposite

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#before #comes #defeat #easiest #exactly

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#afraid #because #exactly #loud #out

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fee #only #psychoanalysis #seems

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #books #doing #enough #exactly

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#exactly #like #nothing #sex #some

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive