#pond

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#own #people #power #respond #simply

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#immediately #lights #plug #put #respond

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#being #best #correspondent #different #ended

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#mood #must #need #other #people

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#correspondent #goal #i #network #time

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. ↗

— Anthony Caro

#in other words #other #respond #sculpture #sees

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#correspondence #picture #postcard #art

(Quoting Goethe:) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— James Howe

#letters #memory #beauty

It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ― some stranger ― had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#letters #business

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true. ↗

— Peter Singer

#also #i #i think #idea #impact