#not

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ↗

— Jane Austen

#done #right #soon #too

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#advances #another #canada #careers #certainly

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#other #production #sacred #sacrifice #than

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #cardinal #driven #impatience #only

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #factory #feel #hell #through

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #although #america #beloved #bodies

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#difficult #entropy #grasp #i #increases