#ted

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me! ↗

— Sally Field

#career #deny #fact #feel #first

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#almighty #anything #asked #atmosphere #attempted

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person. ↗

— Sally Field

#because #been #granted #i #person

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood. ↗

— Sally Field

#ever #felt #hollywood #i #never

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ↗

— Alan Clark

#awful #comes #day #death #demoted

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bridget #bridget jones #caribbean #cruises #earnest