#sphere

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. ↗

— Pythagoras

#humming #music #spheres #strings

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#caused #colonial #come #engaged #europe

It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#atmosphere #did #director #film #help

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

#atmosphere #begin #convey #ending #happens

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#around #better #business #global #halfway

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#fear #girl #licentiousness #reared #slave

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#during #endeavoured #evolution #evolutionary #half

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enlarges #everything #human #human powers #man

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#atmosphere #business #complete #family #film