#who

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#anyone #artists #because #blues #brown

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#degrees #devil #his #play #sword

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #fear #feels #frighten #man

Who seeks shall find. ↗

— Sophocles

#find #seeks #shall #who

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#i #manner #might #much #news

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#any #anything #day #disagree #get