#mina

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#american people #chief #chief justice #court #death

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#clever people #create #difficulties #fresh #illuminate

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#achieving #always #anything #determination #drive

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#carry #characters #could #critical #emotional

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. ↗

— Edward Norton

#academy awards #awards #because #been #budget

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. ↗

— Edward Norton

#all things #always #appeals #broadest #denominator

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#behavior #criminals #only #reward

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#enough #examination #exams #finding #follow