#peri

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#awful #between #cold #disappears #friendship

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#course #dramatically #evolves #i #i think

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#dead #experience #exploring #ground #instrument

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#bird #boredom #dream #drives #egg

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#economic #economic growth #follow #growth #prosperity

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#feel #heart #leaders #make #people

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#acting #actually #enjoyed #fascinating #i

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#after #all day #because #camp #day

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #directing #experience #films #good