#iona

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. ↗

— Glenn Close

#genius #just #man #merchant #most

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. ↗

— David Fincher

#lot #obsessive #people #probably #professionalism

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit. ↗

— Ed Helms

#character #confusing #difficult #fictional #incredibly

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#garden #gardens #had #i #i think

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#greatest #literature #masterpiece #only #order

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#because #been #created #even #gorbachev

and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dreams #inspirational #life #life-experience #dreams

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#concerned #country #deeply #diminution #disproportionately

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#beings #believe #body #certainly #contact

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#bio #cooler #found #i #i am