#so

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. ↗

— John Malkovich

#controlled #doing #everyone #great #great truth

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. ↗

— John Malkovich

#buildings #design #mason #mean #you

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. ↗

— John Malkovich

#play #someone #take #want #whatever

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. ↗

— John Malkovich

#good #i #interested #know #me

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#melody #needs #renewing #soul #which

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

#calm #flourish #fortitude #honor #humility

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

#forms #great #inspires #noble #people

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ↗

— David Mallet

#courted #deeds #deserve #despises #fame

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. ↗

— David Mallet

#mournful #owl #screams #solitary #wailing