#long

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #directing #experience #films #good

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#accused #along #being #bit #coming

I owe it all to chocolate and young men. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#men

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. ↗

— John Updike

#baby #coat #gold #like #longer

I've got a long-term plan. ↗

— Colin Hay

#i #long-term #plan

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer. ↗

— Jane Harman

#fame #longer #maybe #minutes

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#being #fair #fun #given #how

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bound #come #confident #could #devoutly