#y

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#almost #became #endless #grandparents #mythic

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. (“Mad House”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#career #creativity #writers #writing #age

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film. ↗

— Claudia Schiffer

#asked #film #going #him #i

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#any #ask #climbing #everest #first

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#book #hair #hate #i #into

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#carry #dream #imagination #man #must

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#dreams

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. ↗

— Travis Barker

#got #high #i #junior #junior high

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#instead #ladies #like #men #say

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#failure #glory #success #age