#now

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#banging #doing #drum #during #election

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#certainly #deserve #doors #even #got

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#collects #combination #combines #experimentation #facts

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#even #how #i #imagine #kind

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#ear #grammar #i #know #piano

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#how #i #known #much #packing

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.' ↗

— Vin Diesel

#girl #goes #howard #howard stern #i

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#amazing #any #auto #because #before