#lain

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#around #complaining #everything #go #golden

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. ↗

— James Jeans

#fact #in fact #plain

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#just #like #parts #play #simply

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#characters #complaints #hook #particular #tv

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#behind #ever #fleeting #gift #grief

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#even #feeling #french #french people #impatient

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth. ↗

— Henry Reed

#earth #explain #first #knew #life

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american #american people #choice #even #even worse

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. ↗

— Brion James

#audience #either #evil #i #i can