#met

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#divine #relics #something #treasured

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#eating #emotional #escape #gluttony #sign

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#buddhism #fascinated #interesting #long #long time

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#being #coming #current #depending #ever

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#deaf #ear #going #i #i am

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. ↗

— Carrot Top

#could #doing #go #gone #hook

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#both sides #chance #fence #gives #hopefully