#um

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#beastly #better #business #even #exist

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#between #cameraman #close #costume #course

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#around #awesome #been #bin #compass

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#humor #business

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments. ↗

— Mick Fleetwood

#dream #instrument #instruments #last #true

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#clings #even #everything #hope #love is

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#business

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#circumstances #external #i #never #torturers