#mati

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ↗

— Walter Pater

#dramatic #finest #given #how #life

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged

I love great animation. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#great #i #i love #love

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#harmonic #him #mathematical #music #proportion

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#format #information #interesting #palatable #pretty

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#oneself #problem #whole

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#cause #cleanly #crime #defined #dramatically