#ect

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#acting #direct #find #i #just

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#creator #does #fabric #maximum #minimum

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#film #films #i #make #objectively

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ↗

— Euripides

#future #his #learning #loses #neglects

They only babble who practise not reflection. ↗

— Edward Young

#only #practise #reflection #who

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. ↗

— Max Euwe

#chess #game #main #object #remains

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#box #burned #crying #curb #huge

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#barely #best #book #books #clone

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. ↗

— Bill Evans

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling