#lis

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#first #heart #his #piece #praise

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#fun #listen #sad #sad songs #satisfying

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#books #certain #editor #house #i

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#disease #infantile #mankind #measles #nationalism

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

We continue to be bullish on China. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#china #continue

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#bell #during #everybody #everything #fault

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#joke #listen #lonesome #medium #millions

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment