#al

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ↗

— Edward Albee

#involvement #people #reality #really #theater

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. ↗

— Edward Albee

#character #every #extension #know #material

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art #because #behavior #behind #concerned

Men can do all things if they will. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#men #things #will

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. ↗

— Steve Albini

#conventional wisdom #doubt #experiment #reason #unless

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. ↗

— Steve Albini

#being #busy #delusion #doing #else

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #anyhow #battling #because #getting

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #fully #fully alive #life #prospect

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#distrusts #whole #world