#chin

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#feel #flame #glass #hand #hardly

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#interesting #layer #most #nudity #off

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand. ↗

— Anne Ford

#ever #find #fully #get #i

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ↗

— Henry Ford

#amount #around #certain #chicken #gets

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #chosen #depends #eyes #generally

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#enriching #even #every #found #influences

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#audience #camera #caught #forever #get