#reason

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#almost #areas #around #better #film

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ↗

— Ira Glass

#easy #exists #forget #hear #i

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#failures #inaction #losses #past #reason

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. ↗

— John Irving

#book #critics #done #dwell #feel

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#bite #bites #had #i #job

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#back #behind #doing #every #every time

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out. ↗

— Richard Jefferson

#i #insanely #odd #optimistic #out

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#came #cold #dakota #doing #first