#say

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug ↗

— R.L. Stine

#say-cheese-and-die #nature

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity. ↗

— William Petersen

#celebrity #episode #goodbye #gratifying #i

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. ↗

— Erwin Chargaff

#essays #language-literature #nature

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#clergy #god #must #say #spite

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ↗

— John Lennon

#being #believe #call #egomaniac #i

Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.] ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#essays #montaigne #writing #art

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#giving #knowing #say #style #want

And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fiction #modern-fiction #virginia-woolf #art

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#also #always #been #continuing #done

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ↗

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#defend #disapprove #i #right #say