What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
Umberto Eco
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
Jill Abramson
PrettyThingsBecauseLaptopMuch
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben
DayVacationNothingAll DayHaving
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew Henry
EducationLearningMenLiberal
I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.
Amanda de Cadenet
LiveYouFindWaySomethingGet
A handy pair of tweezers go a long way. You never know when you're going to have to pluck out a few of those eyebrow hairs. Keep the tweezers in the purse!
Sufe Bradshaw
LongYouGoKnowWayNever
All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say that there shouldn't be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends' language, my grandmother's language, the language in my mouth - you're going to tell me that's improper?
Jason Reynolds
SchoolMeLanguageFriendsMouth
I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.
Joseph Abboud
FamilyFatherMotherMemoryHelp
When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.
Domenico Dolce
HeartPeopleStoryLovedGayNever
If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.
Chris Evans
LifeTimeMomentChildhoodWalking
Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.
Alice McDermott
RomanticDarknessSoulThinkYoung
Germany is the country where action films perform the worst. It's the worst market in the world for these kind of movies.
Til Schweiger
WorldActionCountryMoviesKind
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
Nicolas Cage
FatherGodDecisionSpeakLiterature
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