#imp

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#attack #ever #furious #importunate #kill

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#forces #go #how #i #implications

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#arise #chaotic #come #contact #fluctuations

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#humor #i #i think #important #marriage

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#always #changes #fashion #feel #grand

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#compass #conscience #far #great #however

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#funny #get #hardest #improvised #laugh