#ali

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#california #country #like #limb #me

They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-"gay" piece - rather than help it. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#gay #help #interview #more #our

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#catholic #catholic church #church #homosexuality #homosexuals

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#california #done

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #culture #expected #fill #film

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#balance sheets #business #cash #earliest #fact

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#continue #counties #delaware #delaware state #delaware state university

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #being #complex #crisis #every

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty