#acute

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. ↗

— Martin Amis

#observational #food

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#acute #bit #come #depression #every

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#admired #assisted #been #delivery #documentary

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#asked #bent #day #doubt #each

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#acutely #awfulness #character #conceive #earnestly

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#civilized #cured #endure #even #food

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#am #being #boy #duty #emotions

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#anything #how #paralyzed #realize #time