#bj

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#angeles #disadvantage #everyone #facilities #great

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#debate #democratic #democratic society #hierarchy #inspiration

We tend to mistake music for the physical object. ↗

— David Byrne

#music #object #physical #tend

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#arbitrary #fashion #subject

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. ↗

— Vince Cable

#basic #britain #competitiveness #considerable #education

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#does #eloquent #fact #good #horrid

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#attitude #causes #come #emotion #ideas

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#inconstancy #nothing #subject #war