#om

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#even #fall #how #i #leave

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#go #i #mom

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#his #i #least #man #ones

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#close #fun #get #lot #make

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#again #always #form #going #job

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#appeal #appealing #banished #before #dark

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#aim #direct #i #much #point

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#approximately #book #first #i #second

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#camera #commercials #doing #i #since