#act

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american life #due #fact #i #i think

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#beautiful #born #wildly #you

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#conflict #draw #europe #fact #failed

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#been #end #god #hope #kind

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#begin #broken #homes #i #i can

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#fact #films #generally #in fact #productions

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. ↗

— Lindsay Wagner

#fact #fiction #gives #license #science

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#dollar #exchange #fair #intervene #japan