#yin

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch-22 #done #good #i #read

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#saying #truth #unpleasant #way

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. ↗

— Levon Helm

#grades #high #high school #i #me

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#call #discovering #faculty #innate #laws

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#agent #ages #ask #century #down

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#away #barren #fall #ground #kind

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. ↗

— Anita Hill

#course #fortunately #had #helped #i

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#add #big #big difference #cannot #daily

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.' ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#because #difficult #eventually #go #got

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#best #better #bigger #cars #children