#ike

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#charm #death #even #every #fame

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#could #grocery #hours #i #i can

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#face #horse #i #just #life

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#chose #doing #fortunate #get #gravitate

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#day #glass #i #like #mother

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#like #liking #merely #other #people

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#carried #crying #like #once #out