#ounce

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#announcement #death #faith #first #i

We should have an easier name to pronounce. ↗

— John Oates

#name #pronounce #should

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#article #categorical #central #constitution #declare

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#anything #being #careful #check #come

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#always #been #born #brilliant #consciousness

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#applies #bounced #cameraman #day #devised

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#always #back #because #been #bounce

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american public #announce #criticism #morally #must

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#asked #combination #drawing #end #feel

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. ↗

— Julian Sands

#announced #going #great #scandal #time