#ate

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #kate-daniels #las-colimas #magic-bites #styles

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#fault #get #horror #i #matter

They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment? ↗

— Samuel Bellamy

#anarchy #class #employment #piracy #pirates

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

Danger has a bracing effect. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,  until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artists #create #enormous #enough #fears

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#am #amp #annoy #drum #drums