#mos

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words. ↗

— Keren Ann

#exact #inspired #into #mood #more

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#gnaws #hearts #i #i love #know

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. ↗

— Michael Apted

#compelling #craft #directors #filmmaking #five

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#aristocrats #born #dreading #experience #freaks

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#evil #good #make #make up #minds

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#activities #almost #common #common denominator #denominator

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. ↗

— Jane Asher

#another #being #deciding #dressing #end

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#effective #impressive #mode #most #most beautiful

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#error #intellectual #most #often #optimism