#thou

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#effort #entertained #going #home #house

I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#else #get #give #i #instead

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#aboriginal #australians #between #black #black and white

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#australia #back #came #changed #conscription

Without stones there is no arch. ↗

— Marco Polo

#stones #without

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

#gem #nobility #setting #virtue #without

Dance must have a precision without fault. ↗