#our

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#board #canoe #currents #draws #enough

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good. ↗

— Milos Forman

#being #especially #films #first #france

The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#chunk #close #daughter #family #film

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#by the time #corner #could #end #four

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#because #book #day #done #end

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted. Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes? Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. ↗

— Zach Helm

#ferrell #fiction #food #harold #helm

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#courage #either #entails #life

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#better #changed #characters #even #hold

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#being #discovers #finally #happiness #happiness lies

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

#feel #feel good #get #good #just