#kin

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#feel #i #i feel #i think #myself

Everybody is talking today about the economy. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#economy #everybody #talking #today

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#been #being #dictator #difficult #documentary

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. ↗

— Lesley Boone

#commit #head #i #i tried #oven

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comedians #information #just #level #listen

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#better #excellence #mediocre #mediocre men #men

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#about #another #being #christian #christian ethic

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#big #george #going #hit #i

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. ↗

— Gary Cole

#been #bit #enough #fact #family

Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off the walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of the two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you are doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #intention #life #rita-hayworth #shawshank-redemption