#with

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. ↗

— David Lynch

#anyone #balance #could #dangerous #even

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ↗

— Albert Camus

#asking #charm #clear #getting #question

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ↗

— James Madison

#both #farce #government #information #means

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#evokes #exist #mystery #which #without

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

#attempting #cold #cold iron #desire #hammering

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#being different #context #different #education #guitar

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#dried #expected #fled #growth #inspiration

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#anyone #ask #assistance #certain #could

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizen #citizenship #defend #first-class #isolate

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. ↗

— Anita Loos

#america #american #american life #billions #charm