#out

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#abstract #best #does #i #king

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#believe #could #criteria #i #i believe

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#college #deal #goes #good #good deal

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#certain #day #death #exceeding #fine

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#comes #communication #does #grieve #i

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#clothes #create #fashion #magazines #people