#ages

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do? ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#me #messages #move #other #phone

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#languages #travel #art

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it. ↗

— Larry David

#dialogue #eight #everything #going #happen

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#bear #between #carriages #good #i

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#course #demand #drop #had #joblessness

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#others #outstripped #pay #people #real

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#being #better #laws #like #made

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. ↗

— Bjork

#artist #chat #colors #comes #down