#yes

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #attention #because #crucial #did

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#size #respect

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#because #even #hand #i #inherently

It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#another day #day #jack #today #tom

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#close #eyes #i #often #tolerate

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ↗

— Mark Twain

#depend #eyes #focus #out #you

Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#first #husband #i #love #most

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#could #dicaprio #eyes #had #i

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#caught #character #construction #does #done