#sk

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#about #am #ask #because #done

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#first #five #got #helped #how

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#burt #burt reynolds #his #i #me

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#asked #fresh #grass #hours #i

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#day #difficult #difficult task #every #every day

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ↗

— Diogenes

#former #friends #good #good friends #him

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad. ↗

— Luc Besson

#feel #good #know #position #risk

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fool #man #wise #wise man #wonders