#than

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#even #itself #merit #more #offensive

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#could #directly #emotions #english #express

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ↗

— Walter Murch

#20th century #age #artistic #became #century

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#art #cunning #face #final #gods

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road. ↗

— Brent Musburger

#down #down the road #folks #had #house

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#different #environment #medium #own #particular

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#got #i #nanny #russian #tales

Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#argument #common #course #eternally #extremists

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind. ↗

— Andrea Newman

#body #designed #i #i love #love

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#dictionary #does #great #literature #make