#quit

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years. ↗

— John Hume

#days #general #get #had #investment

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#actually #also #anarchy #artist #before

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#cold #cold war #doctrine #europe #expanded

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio. ↗

— John Hurt

#easily #i #listen #much #never

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. ↗

— Neil Innes

#bass player #drums #i #larry #make

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#courage

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#julia-romano #love #unrequited #dating

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romance #unrequited-love #food

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#punishment #unrequited-love #love

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#coming #ever #feel #genre #get