#mode

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #change #closely #commission #connected

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#committed #georgia #government #honest #i

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie. ↗

— Peter Bart

#beginning #come #financing #half #many

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arts #aspiration #available #color #every

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation. ↗

— Sean Astin

#diet #i #know #moderation #terrible

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#cruises #enjoy #everything #everything in moderation #family

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#faces #get #i #i see #industry

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age #entertainment #everything #film #going