#hem

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best #books #care #characters #driven

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#gratitude #hope #how #insects #our

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop. ↗

— Jack Dee

#fighting #hated #hurting #i #people

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#find #go #i #i see #like

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#even #had #i #kept #liked

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#both #children #else #expected #hoped

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#destruction #humanity #risks #them #which

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#christian #come #end #few #go

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#also #because #doing #everything #i

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#collateral #damage #euphemism #innocent #innocent civilians