#oft

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. ↗

— David Bailey

#beautiful #becomes #fashion #off #often

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#dealing #detail #discuss #end #excessive

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #central #character #comes #differentiate

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#anyone #break #break up #i #i think

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#caused #gone #last #microsoft #people

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#often #power #revealed #striking #true