#ow

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#am #get #had #i #i am

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#come #computer #harm #inaction #shall

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#against #better #corruption #country #deliver

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#august #before #could #course #due

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. ↗

— Terence Rattigan

#dares #few #his #lose #may

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#drop #i #me #out #pieces

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

#class #common #common man #early #faring