#them

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#completely #fan #feel #i #me

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#birth #brain #control #dust #emotion

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #live #paramount #readers #them

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them. ↗

— Jack Dee

#comedians #feel #hang #i #i love

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. ↗

— Mos Def

#just #leaders #lot #people #propagandists

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#being #credit #gives #lot #people

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#films #hitchcock #i #i think #making