#sting

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#boasting #duration #family #makes #merit

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #life #million #over #people

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#apostles #could #evils #existing #imitate

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

#any #beginning #i #interesting #last

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#book #country #down #experiment #here

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing. ↗

— Stephen Root

#casting directors #directors #here #just #just one

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#difficult #more #much #never #once

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#alternatives #avoid #being #cigarettes #interesting

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ↗

— George Savile

#difficulty #must #prince #trusting #undergo

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#decorate #gives #illusion #interesting #life