#my

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#down #i #know #life #lot

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. ↗

— Tim Burton

#gluttony #humor #manners #humor

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ↗

— John Ashbery

#confuse #i #i think #improve #life

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#come #could #good #good heart #heart

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#army #called #continued #into #just

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. ↗

— Les Aspin

#autonomy #back #certain #comfortable #feel

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable. ↗

— Armand Assante

#go #i #inevitable #make #myself

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#anything #around #dance #dancing #desire

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past. ↗

— Tom Atkins

#big #big movie #changed #giants #go