#which

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#bottle #case #handy #i #i see

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#access #actor #actually #another #asking

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #lot #mount #out #people

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#aids #apart #because #change #characters

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. ↗

— David Fincher

#around #been #deals #everybody #financed

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#concrete #control #feeling #i #language

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#country #discussion #freedom #i #independence

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#build #ceo #company #conventional #conventional wisdom