#bj

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#film #films #i #make #objectively

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. ↗

— Max Euwe

#chess #game #main #object #remains

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#authors #beginning #correcting #edition #end

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. ↗

— Marc Faber

#crisis #current #government #haven #i

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#amongst #audience #choose #i #internationalist

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations