#than

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. ↗

— Zell Miller

#deeds #i #lot #mean #more

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#educated #idea #minutes #more #person

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#decipher #defies #expectation #fill #hope

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

#bach #being #being different #creativity #different

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#advice #give #nobody #than #wiser

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#glory #king #less #loves #pleasure

I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #audience #before #challenge

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#buy #cheaper #live #make #movies

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#back #come #free #hate #i