#own

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#lament #many #towns

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#getting #head #heat #i #i can

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#common #french #french literature #literature #our

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#cleanliness #come #courtesy #downward #excluded

To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character. ↗

— Rider Strong

#cabin #character #closer #fall #fever

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#control #craft #cues #directly #down

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#angry #been #down #ever #exist

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#fiction #out #own #realities #science

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#families #i #know #known #long