#pa

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ↗

— John Burroughs

#easier #get #moral #more #out

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#conclusions #congress #detailed #directions #draw

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#already #am #areas #been #explorer

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#bigger #breasts #despair #done #get

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?' ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#another #any #came #depressing #difficult

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#damn #feeling #giving #hate #i

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#always #around #because #been #business

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#how #i #life #lived #narrow

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#i #killed #literally #new #new york

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. ↗

— Lance Burton

#ask #birthday #books #christmas #cost