#cock

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#being #cocky #feel #i #i do

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#ago #aware #cockpit #confident #couple

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ↗

— Sa'Di

#crying #feet #himself #his #peacock

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#critical #culture #i #our #perfect

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. ↗

— Sylvia Sidney

#fritz #hitchcock #i #lang #loved

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #cocky #come #confers #enough

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#amusing #chaplin #charlie #could #course

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#assumes #cigarette #cocktail #dressed #everyone

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#aristotle #concealment #courtesy #partridge-and-cock #age