#par

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Henry Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#before #beyond #book #compare #converse

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#been #compared #duplicate #haunting #i

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#comic #emotion #feel #film #films

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #cynicism #election #end #in the end

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#active #arose #combat #days #falklands

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

#begins #circles #come #conscious #cycle

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry. ↗

— Will Oldham

#everybody #film #film industry #i #i think

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#class family #edge #family #fire #give

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#american #because #british #eight #i