#pre

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#appeal #beauty #effort #enjoyment #immediate

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. ↗

— George Vancouver

#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#effect #enough #fiction #film #fixes

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. ↗

— William Foege

#preventive #vaccines

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#antidote #bosses #concentration #demands #disaster

What made me empathic was my depressions. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

#made #me

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#given #i #just #like #period

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy? ↗

— Melissa Nathan

#pride-and-prejudice-adaptation #sexy #women #beauty

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#atomic #atomic bomb #bomb #could #here