#act

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#personality #life

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! ↗

— Iain Banks

#course #fact #great #great believer #i

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash! ↗

— Peter Banks

#another #approach #attempt #bits #different

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #does #ego #just #lot

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. ↗

— Nina Totenberg

#age #comes #i #level #some

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ↗

— William Banting

#becomes #beyond #charm #comfort #creates

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#consequence #every #faith #our #strengthens

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#built #exact #exact science #feeling #greatness

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#crying #instant #laughing #like #live

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#answer #civilisation #conduct #first-class #how