#stan

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#believes #every #historian #professional #speaks

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#advantage #appearance #appears #because #chances

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#bones #defined #now #out #perilous

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#empathy #eye #famous #great #happened

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#beauty #bones #defined #i #la

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#am #blaming #doing #find #i

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#berlin #between #building #church #difference

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. ↗

— John Morley

#choice #constantly #evils #politics #two

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#art #disco #everything #many #misunderstanding

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#beethoven #bernard #did #happens #himself