#prop

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives. ↗

— Raoul Dufy

#arrives #aside #cast #creation #down

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. ↗

— William Bligh

#application #considering #her #i #much

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%. ↗

— Jim Evans

#call #field #happen #how #job

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#describe #i #more #myself #stubborn

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#help #improve #out #property #take

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#based #basic #been #build #center

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#attribution #believe #control #copyright #creator