#lise

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#music

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blaming #cards #dealt #did #failures

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#democratic #democratic system #detention #foreign #more

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. ↗

— Adam Brody

#captivating #enjoyed #hindsight #how #i

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy. ↗

— Jenson Button

#around #because #cars #driving #enjoyed

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#civilised #i #irrevocably #laughter #me

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#i #now #person #place #realised

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#car #corner #could #even #going

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗

— Holly Valance

#buying #done #entertainment #fictional #hopefully