#though

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#had #i #later #novelist #thought

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#always #animal #any #anything #cannot

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? ↗

— John Trumbull

#breed #done #get #lest #lose

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#business #gets #good #i #i wish

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#going #i #know #made #movies

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#case #catches #course #crash #crashed

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#easy way #habit #oppressive #out #religion

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#distant #fine #finite number #infinite #infinite number

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#been #early #gone #incredible #into