#age

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#between #both #difference #feel #films

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#great #luminous #ones #stage

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#language #words #experience

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation

When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four hundred years.” “Ah. Yes. Only four hundred.” A wry expression spread over his face. “Being with you is a continual experiment in perspective. Among other things. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #succubus-on-top #age

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. ↗

— John Barton

#always #because #been #experience #feel

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#front #good #good news #hits #market

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#had #her #husband #marriage #mother

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#age #civilization #rise #risen #stone