#being

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#beach #been #being #caribbean #children

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

#definition #description #fallen #fiction #human

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#any #being #best #cannot #childhood

A human being is only breath and shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#breath #human #human being #only #shadow

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? ↗

— Joy Page

#every #full #how #left #many

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. ↗

— Tim Page

#against #being #biggest #challenge #exciting

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#being there #favorite #favorite films #films #gardener

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #being #being alone #called #close

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#defend #dignity #europe #hand #includes

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. ↗

— George Peppard

#being #firmly #impressed #me #quality