#tho

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#scarlet #though

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#discomfort #enjoy #often #opinion #thought

Words are the small change of thought. ↗

— Jules Renard

#small #thought #words

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them. ↗

— Peter King

#after #anyone #approved #barack #barack obama

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#another #asked #boat #boats #both

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #born #disguised #every #like

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for. ↗

— Joe Murray

#give #give me #going #great #had