#stead

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#best #books #competition #difficult #film

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#enemy #face #instead #like #new

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#before #bit #brash #competitive #emotional

Take the back roads instead of the highways. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#highways #instead #roads #take

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#deserve #greatest #instead #minority #nation

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead. ↗

— River Phoenix

#became #been #before #break #even

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#away #beast #emphasis #get #instead

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#constantly #instead #like #narrator #omniscient

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead