#ann

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#business #even #longer #manner #operate

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ↗

— Socrates

#short-lived #tyranny

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#cannot #forces #influence #man #nature

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#anything #cannot #discussion #enforcement #evil

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#chris #dead #film #get #independent

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more! ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#agent #annoying #any #became #did

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#change #escape #gain #lose #mark

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#capable #down #find #i #kind

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#am #being #channeling #doing #hear