#lou

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. ↗

— John Grierson

#conflicting #happens #important #more #often

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#astonishing #because #been #england #exile

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature. ↗

— John Grisham

#already #always #blue #book #book signings

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#come #composing #formula #i #myself

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#art form #been #before #creating #flourish

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.' ↗

— Larry Hagman

#certainly #colour #cousin #creed #dallas

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. ↗

— George Halas

#been #boo #booing #city #favorite

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#nicknames #people #ridiculous #stick