#fort

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#comfortable #creativity #feel #films #freaked

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#champagne #coaster #comfortably #couple #drunk

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! ↗

— Petrarch

#earth #fortune #how

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#feel #me #mom #put #safety

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#become #being #comfortable #day #doing

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.' ↗

— David Sedaris

#calling #felt #i #like #myself

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#although #deeper #even #forty #full

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#difficult #effort #great #great art #never