#thou

I started my career without fans. ↗

— Christian Bale

#fans #i #started #without

Ability is of little account without opportunity. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#account #little #opportunity #without

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#audience #better #dead #fact #ham

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #ineffectual #novels #passion

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#areas #because #came #emerging #england

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #passion #religion #romance

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#demand #esteem #exist #first #love

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#cast #giving #i #imagine #jamie

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dull #exciting #life #speak #then