#met

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#simile #simile

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem. ↗

— Joan Allen

#get #i #just #life #live

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. ↗

— Joan Allen

#bar #circumstance #every #four #give

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it. ↗

— Rick Allen

#beneficial #cause #conversely #done #everyone

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. ↗

— Ted Allen

#been #before #chicago #cook #critic

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best. ↗

— Tim Allen

#basically #best #cars #difference #drives

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. ↗

— Tim Allen

#hateful #levels #loving #mean #metaphysical

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. ↗

— Woody Allen

#doing #films #i #know #profit

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life. ↗

— Alan Alda

#anything #back #bring #dead #deeper

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #big #character #i #interesting