#sit

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#chair #mariah #me #put #really

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#after #been #beginning #believed #blonde

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit

Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #lighthouse #man #quick #said

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#head #i #just #me #might

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #feeling #formal #great #like

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#aim #always #course #how #i

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread