#lit

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really. ↗

— Karl Urban

#along #because #benefit #comes #doing

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#angry #came #down #focus #got

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston. ↗

— Howie Carr

#ago #because #boston #covering #crime

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. ↗

— John le Carre

#anything #ask #be prepared #dali #diverse

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#close #comes #intuition #perception #reality

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#another #article #claimed #going #idiot

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#people #remind #responsibility #struggles #their

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#dare #else #free #little #madness