#wit

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#best way #cycle #depressing #doing #end

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#being #distorted #each #experience #freely

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#even #find #i #more #participating

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #delving #entire #fact #figure

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#audience #club #engaging #fan #gatherings

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#because #cannot #else #friends #friendship

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#bodies #completely #decisions #dominated #expression

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#effect #force #hate #having #just

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#admires #knowing #length #only #things