#ode

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#moderation #should #spirit

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#also #beautiful #between #biggest #codes

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#assessment #criminal #document #ever #formal

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery. ↗

— Jason Clarke

#interviews #keep #modern #modern world #mystery

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#candor #his #judgment #less #modesty

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#credible #economy #fairer #labour #liberal

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#being #certainly #code #far #filmmaker