#wit

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing. ↗

— June Singer

#drive #ever #go #hood #knowing

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering. ↗

— Peter Singer

#food #killed #most #should #suffering

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. ↗

— Peter Singer

#basically #bit #cheese #consider #exploitation

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation. ↗

— Peter Singer

#breaks #community #different #different sort #down

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should. ↗

— Peter Singer

#being #chicken #conscious #different #get

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#certain #craftsmanship #every #gone #i

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#ever #judgmental #reason #star #star trek

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#beauty #bewitched #fairy-tales #unbelief #beauty

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#any #badly #being #disease #get