#ore

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeared #before #better #career #concentrate

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#beginning #bring #build #create #creature

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#guy #had #i #leading #more

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. ↗

— George Santayana

#dignity #grace #his #humility #live

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#bother #calculated #far #foreigner #french

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#acting #anybody #care #college #explore

The more I practice, the luckier I get. ↗

— Gene Sarazen

#i #luckier #more #practice

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere. ↗

— Arthur Schwartz

#anywhere #brooklyn #i #i love #joints

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#beginning #good #good opportunity #having #offer

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time. ↗