#east

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#actor #as far as #because #comedy #considered

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east

The least touchable object in the world is the eye. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#least #object #world

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#colours #costumes #everything #find #first

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#because #color #films #horror #horror movies

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ↗

— John Barrymore

#causes #least #most #sex #takes

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. ↗

— Mario Batali

#best #city #food #italy #least

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#chaos #clarity #confusion #denial #enough

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#east side #everybody #life #lower #ought