#cult

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. ↗

— Yao Ming

#chinese #chinese culture #culture #ecosystem #great

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#around #because #been #difficult #done

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#cultivates #each #fruit #grow #him

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#brand #brand new #difficult #easy #envelope

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. ↗

— Rick Moody

#cultures #had #ice #life #movie

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#cannot #character #difficult #every #gender

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#difficult #get #good #instrument #least

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#always #anticipating #basic #being #difficult