#quite

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine. ↗

— Kaya Scodelario

#beforehand #boyfriend #carpet #cry #dressing

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#been #east #east side #growing #growing up

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it. ↗

— William Scranton

#got #i #i remember #must #quite

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#bed #doing #else #frankly #go

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#bother #enjoy #i #joke #me

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. ↗

— John Searle

#berkeley #body #element #feature #general

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#communities #give #hindu #human #human race

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#back #back to school #contrary #doing #goes