#kind

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. ↗

— Little Richard

#child #i #kind #really #shy

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #animal #aware #become #i

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#anything #certainly #i #kind #parents

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#any #assumption #book #celebrity #dictated

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#know #man #mankind #presume #proper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others