#lan

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. ↗

— John Updike

#blank #blank paper #characters #chilled #day

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#england #environment #experiences #film #more

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#i #man #only #planet #straight

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#beautiful words #common #common language #four #i

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#because #being #diving #great #i

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#clown #far #higher #higher plane #i

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#alpha #angels #beginning #big #daddy