#tin

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#happily #heels #his #history #may

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#be careful #because #been #careful #directed

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#competing #different #different aspects #different people #nature

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. ↗

— Tony Randall

#been #evening #fun #her #make-up

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divorce #families #family-saga #forgetting #life

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#suicide #writing #age

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. ↗

— Michael Ramsey

#continue #controls #crime #does #enron

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#background #himself #his #however #man

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier. ↗

— Jay Asher

#life #life