#thing

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. ↗

— Bette Midler

#anything #helped #i #long #long time

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#anything #conduct #highest #highest standards #holds

Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#nothing

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#booker #great #i #i think #immune

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#flourish #human #into #locked #moment

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never