#oblige

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#away #bothers #directors #haven #i

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ↗

— Voltaire

#cannot #oblige #speak #we cannot

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. ↗

— Len Wein

#another #chain #editor #expect #follow

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#helps #little #much #oblige #often

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#attention #down #everything #less #more

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. ↗

— Don Herold

#beggar #obliged #only #person #study

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#cannot #find #illness #later #obliged

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#life #me #obliges #paint #something