#says

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#half #literal #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#everybody #everything #force #hard #how

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#directing #everyone #had #hard #i

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. ↗

— Laura Dern

#few #few people #heart #i #made

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.' ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#believe #better #convicted #defense #even

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#fit #generally #good #good people #i

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#am #bookstore #card #clerks #credit

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#character #construct #does #fails #his

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#angle #been #come #fear #fit

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#calls #everybody #italians #jews #legend