#saying

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#conversation #fit #holding #kid #know

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#arch #audience #behind #hear #people

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#clearer #i #i am #made #may

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized. ↗

— John Cornyn

#against #believe #clear #i #i believe

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#clean #day #doing #found #friends

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #free

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#brought #children #curiosity #fighting #girl

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.' ↗

— Jon Cryer

#character #develop #different #film #here

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. ↗

— John Cusack

#angeles #ended #famous #friends #hard