#works

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#forced #hell #own #special #their

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#early #evolution #first #gaming #got

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#almost #along #challenge #coming #communication

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#anybody #anything #colleges #constitutional #constitutional amendment

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#because #clearly #constitution #control #create

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#been #came #come #core #found

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#composers #conceived #conductors #could #direct

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#been #being #bizarre #break #community

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. ↗

— Walter Smith

#disappear #down #gentlest #god #looking