#ali

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#academe #academy #ancient #football #modern

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that! ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#girlfriends #got #had #i #mean

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film-making #found #i #inspiring #more

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#anything #how #paralyzed #realize #time

I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#also #appealing #back #cast #come

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#book #coming #going #i #just

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#arts #general #i #i am #practitioner

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. ↗

— Steven Biko

#anyway #care #dead #either #proud