#age

On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#celeborn #galadriel #lothlorien #age

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#everyone #film #fixed #lighting #much

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

#chain #dogs #must #never #sausages

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#everyday #language #nothing #philosophy #said

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well. ↗

— Andrew P. Harris

#budgets #call #care #choose #company

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bankrupt #banks #commercial #go #investment

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#daytime #doing #eight #nighttime #pages