#lise

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#did #eternity #failure #realise #success

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to. ↗

— Jeremy London

#anybody #anything #could #doing #i

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone? ↗

— Shelley Long

#did #hug #know #phone #visualise

When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#children #go #happen #life #plan

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. ↗

— David Lynch

#cheap #cheaper #film #get #go

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have. ↗

— David Mamet

#backstage #doctors #everybody #find #go

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

#civilised #despise #do you know #folk #know

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#did #going #happen #juniors #like