#uses

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#case #during #homer #houses #i

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#courthouse #look #looking #nuremberg #prisoners

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. ↗

— Ira Glass

#big #characters #counts #emotional #fiction

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#anything #being #big #big brother #brother

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place. ↗

— Red Grange

#case #college #get #goes #his

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#change #charge #complaints #faces #remove

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#buses #had #his #mayor #new

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#anything #before #contract #even #excuses