#tis

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#british #brought #coach #correct #dialect

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#back #before #believing #bombing #british

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #first #fool #himself #make

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#concept #culture #his #immediate #popular

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#find #form #mess #now #task

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#conservatism #glorious #orthodoxy #our #pit

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming. ↗

— Uberto Crescenti

#against #am #causes #changes #climatic

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#english #film #generally #i #i think

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward