#thou

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#before #carlin #comic #george #george carlin

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#always #ball #confidence #could #had

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#began #birth #day #hurrying #me

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#far #go #going #how #how far

Peace without justice is tyranny. ↗

— William Allen White

#peace #tyranny #without

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#chic #fashionable #i #less #less is more