#mid

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#companies #down #ealing #films #i

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it. ↗

— Hildegard Knef

#good #help #make #middling #mistakes

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. ↗

— Henry Knox

#formidable #government #having #length #liberty

We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.” The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. “Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile ↗

— S.W. Lothian

#adventure #middle-grade #food

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#bare #going #had #i #just

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#got #i #making #middle #pilot

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#beginning #characters #conflict #end #funny

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bunch #complacent #cowards #deadly #dismiss