#mean

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.' ↗

— Vicky Hartzler

#baby #birth #birth certificate #book #certificate

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#could #i #mean #movie #never

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#i #know #little #makes #me

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#eat #eaten #found #hippopotamus #his

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ↗

— William Gibson

#any #bits #fragments #impossible #information

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational #meaning #purpose #reading #storytelling

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. ↗

— Eric Gill

#first #meaning #meaning of #skill #word

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy. ↗

— Vince Gill

#any #her #i #idiot #know

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' ↗

— David Hockney

#corner #doing #enough #exploited #i

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#fire #free #free speech #means #right