#leads

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #became #because #been #breakdown

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#again #everything #good #i #i do

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#any #borrowing #cuts #democrats #economists

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#creativity #good #good work #i #i think

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#knowledge #leads #literary #nothing #straight

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#certainty #down #imagination #later #leads

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#i think #leads #nature #often #self-centered

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#bad #bad guys #bang #bin #captured

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #character #character actor #fill #got