#mos

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#basic #here #i #ignorance #jazz

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#because #europeans #heavy #i #language

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. ↗

— David Lynch

#absurdity #after #because #becomes #bloody

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#collaborating #components #directors #film #filmmakers

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#been #belonging #filled #had #hour

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#falsehoods #more #most #stimulating #than

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ↗

— Paul de Man

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds? ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#celebrity #celebrity status #even #hatreds #how