#act

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it. ↗

— Alva Noto

#am #between #create #define #i

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#contractor #design #film #ibm #interface

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! ↗

— David Pratt

#actions #being #being honest #called #holding

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth. ↗

— David Reuben

#being #being done #business #contracts #dollars

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ↗

— Frances Wright

#differ #err #experiment #fact #ground

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile. ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#adventure #mystery #suspense #thriller #travel

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase. ↗

— Chris Morris

#appalled #catch #catch phrase #hate #hated