#mo

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#capable #dry #humor #i #kind

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#concerning #down #ideas #incorporate #jot

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #mediocrity #tendency #things

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period. Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humour #libba-bray #beauty

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them? ↗

— Maya Banks

#humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny