#age

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#every man #man #part #playing #resembles

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. ↗

— Cheri K. Erdman

#culture #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark. ↗

— Larry King

#easy #give #joyful #kind #mark

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. ↗

— Richard King

#ideas #images #words #wrong

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#bird #cage #even #hurts #look

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#believe #character #different #dime #gladiator

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#am #being #book #first #frank

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#egyptians #form #language #minimal #structures

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. ↗

— Ed Koch

#allowing #attacked #away #get #i