#something

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#go #got #happen #heels #hoping

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#comedy #disappointment #familiar #far-fetched #nothing

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#because #challenge #death #does #life

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#exhausting #knowing #letter #most #phone

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cambridge #corner #grow #i #quietly

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bear #beings #cent #constantly #down

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#beyond #existence #help #mankind #must

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#deprived #did #different #evolved #himself

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead