#want

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#go #his #lunch #marry #someone

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#being smart #even #made #me #praising

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot. ↗

— Fay Wray

#because #certain #certain age #children #enough

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#catch #decline #falling #further #home

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#better person #i #learn #life #my life

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#did #god #pseudonym #sign #want

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”) ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#dating

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#everybody #finished #going #just #making

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. ↗

— David Antin

#go #happy #i #listen #see

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#annoy #neighbors #tell #them #truth