#thor

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#author #charmed #expected #find #natural

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#idling #impossible #plenty #thoroughly #unless

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

#author #composer #conceivable #form #formless

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#breakout #chances #character #develop #get

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bold #every #fearing #follow #i

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#existing #leave #people #responsible

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #been #better #cases #copies

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#authority #critic #food #i #really

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced