#la

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#babies #begin #cease #come #glands

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#casting #get #more #movie #movie actors

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#each #going #i #know #language

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attempting #display #does #every #every man

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#here #later #most #over #poison

It's better when they laugh, isn't it? ↗

— Lorne Michaels

#laugh

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. ↗

— Michelangelo

#art #extend #given #god #i

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#friends #i #language #literary #me