#unlike

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#brought #care #companionship #contributes #go

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. ↗

— Billy Joel

#find #irs #least #legitimate #musicians

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly. ↗

— Paul Kane

#complete #complete control #control #done #going

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#found #good #helpful #i #movie

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#because #bring #comes #garbage #house

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. ↗

— Michael Korda

#best #deeper #enough #failure #find

Courage is found in unlikely places. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#found #places #unlikely

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #case #cliche #done #exerted