#anne

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#character #excellence #manner #simplicity #style

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #manners #funny

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#any #channeled #comedy #full #i

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#depends #effective #gives #him #himself

Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#debts #decision #decision making #does #flow

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#approach #certain #diplomacy #good #good manners

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#channels #cherished #confidence #did #difficult

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#brothers #families #films #gradually #happened

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#allah #around #avengers #before #bush