#lis

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film-making #found #i #inspiring #more

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#arts #general #i #i am #practitioner

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around? ↗

— Philip Beard

#realistic-fiction #young-adult #death

There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that. ↗

— Dick Spring

#between #deal #done #down #great

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens. ↗

— Mark Boal

#down #exactly #feature #feature film #film

Equality not only in quantity is the best way of quality. ↗

— Paola Calvillo

#karl-marx #socialism #equality

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#go #list #nature #open #sky

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. ↗

— John Bolton

#anybody #appears #appreciate #i #know