#mel

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#course #creatures #during #grain #having

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#conceivable #down #extremely #important #inner

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#came #directors #experience #extremely #feeling

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better. ↗

— David Strathairn

#better #burned #checked #easiest #ended

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. ↗

— August Strindberg

#complicated #extremely #life #man #mechanism

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#although #any #blocks #could #exposed

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#culture #fact #i #i think #in fact

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. ↗

— Tacitus

#atrocious #flock #parts #rome #shameless

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. ↗

— Elie Tahari

#failure #had #homeless #i #means

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers