#off

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#day #enough #gathers #go #just

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#basic #basically #i #i think #jazz

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#envelope #eye #failure #feel #get

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#execution #expression #infinite #interpretation #medium

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. ↗

— Jack Adams

#called #early #eve #force #gilbert

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable. ↗

— Scott Adams

#become #come #disposable #employers #gloves

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

#appoint #great #great ones #hang #office

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#i #lot #movies #offered #same

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#bits #boring #come #dies #dry