#reason

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#almost #areas #around #better #film

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ↗

— Ira Glass

#easy #exists #forget #hear #i

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#failures #inaction #losses #past #reason

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#every #every night #find #four #going

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#any #charms #chiefest #reason #smiles

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#freedom #makes #men #most #obedience

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human. ↗

— Kim Deal

#being #being human #human #mind #music

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. ↗

— Len Deighton

#believe #books #certain #encouraged #i