#ex

When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done. ↗

— Werner Klemperer

#exactly #like #me #mean #say

No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value to me will these discontented pages be? The book, the vow, are worth no more than one is worth oneself. One can never be sure of saving one's soul by writing. One may go writing on and on with a soul already lost. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#our-ancestors #the-non-existent-knight #change

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#become #before #deadly #extremely #food

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#delivered #extremely #four #go #governments

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#missed #more #nothing #opportunity #than

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#always #america #audiences #been #business

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#bind #colonists #existed #i #last

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#exciting #freedom #night #profound

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#sex #sex symbol #symbol #zombie