#sting

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#behind #easy #especially #focus #house

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #artists #because #certain #closed

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#bigger #carry #even #film #five

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#attention #comes #conversation #cuts #dinner

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#being #good #too #uninteresting

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God ↗

— Carter Conlon

#jesus #trusting-god #faith

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

#between #deceive #distinguish #must #reserved

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#become #becoming #code #even #found