#like

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#borrowed #i #ideas #jesus #like

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea. ↗

— John Zorn

#calls #choice #go #got #gotta

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #completing #having #having a baby #like

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #gets #i #i feel #i feel like

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. ↗

— John Zorn

#city #concentrate #got #group #hardcore

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#did #during #fear #gain #get

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#disagrees #i #i think #i write #like

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. ↗

— John Carpenter

#had #him #i #like #make

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. ↗

— Sid Vicious

#appearance #band #bear #because #broke