#liz

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#civilized #civilized society #crimes #god #likely

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#electric #elizabeth #i #keen #neither

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#any #backgrounds #because #big #big movie

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#black #black community #communities #community #did

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#changed #composer #continued #did #half

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#civilization #could #history #inextricably #linked

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. ↗

— George Murray

#hits #other #poets #reads #reality

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#disclosed #does #happen #intellectual #just

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ↗

— Grace Paley

#civilization #educate #i #lot #more