#lou

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#before #career #conditional love #devote #easy

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then. ↗

— William Joyce

#encouraged #enough #i #looked #louisiana

Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#back #because #came #center #claim

I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself? ↗

— Jay-Z

#be happy #because #been #buy #collect

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#books #future #hear #higher #men

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#california #ridiculous #scene #sort #studio

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#audience #change #dictates #fabulous #fall

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last. ↗

— Philip J. Kaplan

#got #i #last #like #ridiculous

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#colour #felt #grew #i #indian