#sca

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#block #court #escape #everything #gate

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#creatively #me #opposite #other #out

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. ↗

— Ron Silver

#barbarism #before #century #exhibited #human

The university awarded me my degree, but can something that’s basically worthless be properly called an award?
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— Jarod Kintz

#college #degree #fraud #funny #humor

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale. ↗

— Clint Walker

#course #demille #did #never #scale

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#escape #family #hearts #innermost #never

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#demanding #escalation #follow #must #passivity

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#anybody #get #go #into #just

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#audience #block #comes #date #due