#venti

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. ↗

— Michael Bay

#breaks #business #challenges #director #fast

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#author #being #book #finds #first

I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#anything #been #being #comic-con #fashion

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#best #best interests #call #children #considered

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#20th century #approached #century #convention #drama

Life is composed of different inventions. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#different #inventions #life

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. ↗

— Bob Black

#daily life #edge #life #maps #marching

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#banging #came #conventional #different #different people

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators