#practical

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#because #club #fact #full-time #in fact

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australians #lot #passionate #practical #very

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#funny #nobody #practically #say #something

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

#desired #efforts #end #never #people

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents. ↗

— John Sayles

#come #direct #get #going #logistical

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#history #necessary #practically #realization #subject

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#busy #eight #good #good looking #house