#elated

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bladder #directly #endurance #film #human

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#concepts #entity #experience #god #having

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#birds #closely #related #similar #species

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#carpenter #chicago #dime #family #family members

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows. ↗

— Jay-Z

#businesses #clothes #culture #direction #everyone

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#i #i do #indeed #inspired #itself

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#country #country music #down #easily #go

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#audio #available #avoid #because #being

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#ago #back #bed #book #come