#ture

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews. ↗

— Pola Negri

#box #box office #course #excellent #exceptions

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#been #both #coin #confidence #credit

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures. ↗

— Karen Morley

#made #most #pictures #progressive #some

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #contaminated #culture #europe #european

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#cry #deny #human #human beings #made

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#european-novelists #literary-tradition #literature-in-translation #art

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. ↗

— William Morris

#dead #future #helping #living #make

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#best #bring #come #excited #future

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

#destroyed #generally #gross #nature #poetry