#ok

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. ↗

— Parker Posey

#be real #comedians #doing #fun #go

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#exact #face #get #look #moth

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#billy wilder #bound #contained #could #create

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness. ↗

— Franka Potente

#before #book #coming #essays #fitness

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#book #constantly #draft #entire #go

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#any #book #books #certain #contents

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#asking #because #grow #grow up #ideas

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#before #crowd #favorite #i #jokes