#dies

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

#become #butterfly #caterpillar #development #himself

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#half #himself #his #image #leaves

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. ↗

— William Goldman

#books #day #dies #each #go

Our comedies are not to be laughed at. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#laughed #our

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#comedies #create #days #film #filmmakers

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#creates #enabling #fiscal #form #important

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#comedies #disagree #dramas #good #good movies

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#difficult #just #kind #melodies #rhythm

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely