#ip

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#became #device #directing #expression #fascinated

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music. ↗

— Angel Haze

#hip-hop #i #like #music #name

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

#common #even #friendship #hands #happiness

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#friendship #goodness #greatest #heart #lasting

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#conjectures #descriptions #having #know #more

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cold #distasteful #friendships #like #meats

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #force #friendship #itself #left

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dress #general #make #more #part

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition