#bout

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#glorifying #horrible #how #like #news

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#talking-about-books #life

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. ↗

— David Baldacci

#driven #find #go #i #new

[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#life

You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively: that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts. The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s. ↗

— Blake Morrison

#twelve-thoughts-about-reading #life

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#also #arnold #because #dumb #even

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#australia #away #far #far away #get

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ↗

— Bill Blass

#cigarette #cocktail #drawings #glamour #had

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#death #effects #explosions #family #human

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#company #food #location #me #moment