#something

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#acting #even #good #i #i do

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

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? ↗

— Michael Gambon

#acting #come #exact #exist #got

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#away #bias #big #break #first

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#grasp #grow #into #something #state