#standing

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you. ↗

#like #onstage #people #smiling #standing

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life. ↗

— Paz Vega

#because #communicate #i #life #much

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?" [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#choices #future #life #past #present

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#foresee #future #i #i can #i do

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. ↗

— William Empson

#fly #heart #standing #you

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms. ↗

— John Engler

#got #i #i think #michigan #outstanding

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#based #because #his #hitchcock #life

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world. ↗