#resent

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#away #could #emotion #grab #i

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#being #country #detest #everything #fight

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency. ↗

— Gary Miller

#agency #asian #barrels #day #demand

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. ↗

— John Mayer

#idea #just #kind #present #song

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#display #emotions #imaginary #instrumental #lets

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#endless #equally #frequently #hence #history

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#concerned #cupboard #interfere #past #photograph

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#becomes #central #concerns #even #exists

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best. ↗

— James Longstreet

#am #been #best #better #cannot

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#because #before #beginning #built #century