#papa

Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were. ↗

— R.L. Stine

#success #change

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ↗

— Iain Pears

#communication #conceit #languages #mockery #papal-authority

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#papar #peace #spirit #imagination

I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it. ↗

— George Clooney

#paparazzi #personal-life #privacy #sharing #life

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#peter #the-catholic-church #the-papacy #the-pope #men

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --' Hugh: 'Pained? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#movie-stars #movies #paparazzi #repartee #wit

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #baby #because #disciplinarian #easy

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#paparazzi #people #really #terrify #torment

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#friendly #go #hardly #i #live

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#even #how #i #imagine #kind