#ect

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. ↗

— Mark Victor Hansen

#get #i #never #subject #talk

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#connectedness #connecting #connecting-with-people #philosophy-of-life #age

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#apprehended #arts #beautiful #feelings #follows

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#assumption #awakens #beautiful #been #course

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills. ↗

— Jean Harlow

#ever #expects #great #lay #pay

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#america #because #care #crisis #health care

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#any #best #change #day #defeated

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#directors #film #film directors #most #own

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#about #actor #actress #art #audience

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#came #experience #flowed #had #i