#jo

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that. ↗

— Christian Bale

#enjoy #i #i do #insanity #like

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. ↗

— Christian Bale

#comedies #doubt #enjoy #get #i

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #actually #audience #convince #creating

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#drops #joy #like #pierced #rain

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#husbands #majority #me #play #remind

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. ↗

— Abdallah II

#be different #being #cost #country #different

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. ↗

— Abdallah II

#another way #arab #arab world #brotherhood #center

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#ever #forget #fun #girl #had

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#because #hardest #i #i am #i think