#lis

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #even #failed #full #giving

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. ↗

— William Bernbach

#communicator #concerned #gets #his #how

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. ↗

— Luc Besson

#before #berlin #berlin wall #big #big guys

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#action film #both #brought #cameron #conscience

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #come #enough #foolish

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#economic-collapse #environmentalism #extinction #gaede #globalization

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ↗

— Anatole France

#million #people #people say #say #still

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. ↗