#lds

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#big #big picture #compassion #connect #different

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#became #bore #breath #conceived #discovered

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#choices #fascinated #human #human behavior #i

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#biggest #burt #burt reynolds #cowboy #dying

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#burt #burt reynolds #his #i #me

The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#buying #cars #drive #economy #forming

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#also #band #bass #bass player #best

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#behavior #between #challenge #character #director

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#another #book #down #getting #gin

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. ↗

— Robert Bloomfield

#book #fields #his #look #nature