#esp

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#capacity #consistency #cycles #homogeneity #i

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#although #am #archetypes #correct #doubt

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#despair #gaiety #often #over #reckless

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#always #am #cane #derby #desperate

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#around #attempt #built #chance #desperately

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#first #frontier #honor #hostile #industry

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#already #black #discrimination #due #hatred

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#deliberately #doing #encouraged #felt #funny

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#asking #bad #different #final #final analysis

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#check #facts #filled #i #joking