#his

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#capable #cause #could #did #emotions

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#democracy #every #every man #gives #his

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#definitive #filtered #historical #into #kind

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#began #chess #every #every night #father

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#ensemble #every #first #his #musician

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#basically #believe #close #come #decade

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#base #because #been #better #cannot

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art history #explosive #faster #history #into

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#again #beat #box #box office #else

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#business #competitors #finds #his #man