#mo

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix. ↗

— Karen Abbott

#life

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#been #civilized #denied #developed #friendly

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#archeology #been #civilization #clearly #demonstrated

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#been #big #buzz #charlatans #couple

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#creating #even #feel #fiction #filmmaking

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#because #boards #enough #gone #i

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was. ↗

— Dwayne Hickman

#always #beatty #even #knew #like

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#biography #i #just #movie #movie actor