#tin

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#i #irritating #know #most #natural

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#behavior #being #bind #comes #could

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#brains #evolution #humor #intelligence #love

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#intelligence

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#conducting #more #singing #than

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #brought #cause #centuries #continually

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#every time #expecting #expects #him #his