#to

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following

It's totally thrilling to direct. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#thrilling #totally

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#been #brink #building #empty #him

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#grail #holy #holy grail #me #most