#counters

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#because #clue #consequently #counters #crap

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. ↗

— Federico Chini

#essence #life #nature #private-life #sea

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#close #encounters #exciting #i #just

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#average #differently #encounters #fan #fanatical

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#encounters #had #held #i #interviews

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#building #counters #doing #each #experiment

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#characters #counter #counters #dialogue #eye

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ↗

— Heraclitus

#danger #does #encounter #encounters #prosperity