#though

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#frightened #i #like #more #movies

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #aside #big #colleges #gas

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#blowing #dining #eating #experienced #fine

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#auditions #city #commercials #days #did

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. ↗

— Greg Egan

#bit #far-fetched #given #hadn #happened

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#imagine #nature #people #practice #see

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. ↗

— Zac Efron

#bring #did #dork #down #goofy

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#anybody #feel #guess #having #i