#thing

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #came #city #detroit #evanescent

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#ever #nothing #only #recorded #said

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#heart #how #i #resonate #things

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#appreciate #could #get #hard #i

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut! ↗

— Rupert Everett

#camera #cut #deep #deep way #everything

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#court #court tv #day #end #everything

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#always #authority #authority figures #because #figures

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican. ↗

— Charles Evers

#better #country #done #hasn #i

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#born #does #enjoy #feeling #group

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. ↗

— Charles Evers

#away #begun #black #fear #get