#pass

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. ↗

— Franz Boas

#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#human #unhappy

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #encompass #fiction #films #global

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#day #devotion #every #every day #justice

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#angeles #arrangements #away #band #baxter

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#enough #ever #good #hearts #leave

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?' ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#big #big movie #cheque #first #got

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement. ↗

— Joan Blades

#engagement #even #front #grassroots #i