#says

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#clear #director #i #i am #last

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#chess #feel #game #i #i feel

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#honor #just #nominated #says #true

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. ↗

— Peter King

#anguish #causing #construct #deep #else

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#except #force #gone #heart #hold

You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#honor #just #nominated #says #true

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#basically #book #book writing #conscious #entertaining

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#earning #i #i do #i was born #living

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#essays #fritter #his #should #someone