#standing

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #genius #imagination #inherited #lying

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#bad #beyond #good #ignorant #literature

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#like #me #microphone #more #over

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#bizarre #dry #intimate #just #movie

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long! ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#careers #i #joni #like #long

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#achieved #cause #celebrity #check #death

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis. ↗

— David Kay

#call #fact #fault #figure #fundamental

I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#christians #even #god #group #i

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#auditioned #began #big #big house #called

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#ends #higher #knowledge #nothing #our