#pen

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

I spend a lot of time with my characters. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#i #lot #spend #time

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

#could #ends #exciting #exciting thing #father

I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#down #expensive #four #i #kind

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dynamite #explain #friends #fun #his

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#agree #bad #been #enjoy #getting

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. ↗

— Roma Downey

#happened #heading #i #i think #just

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#fear #nothing #peace #suppressed #war

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. ↗

— Cato

#angry #eyes #his #man #mouth

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because