#them

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#because #greatest #i #mistakes #most

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#keep #mean #none #secrets #them

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#execution #i #indies #intelligence #make

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#collect #gold #great #i #i am

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#going #good #good writing #i #i think

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. ↗

— John Cusack

#chemistry #good #good actors #immediately #into

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars. ↗

— James Daly

#know #like #rock #roll #stars

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. ↗

— Matt Damon

#because #desperate #down #get #good