#mere

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#charisma #convinced #essential #every #everyone

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being #between #distinction #does #element

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. ↗

— John White Geary

#daily #filled #mere #occurrence #plunder

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

#civilized #civilized world #day #entire #every

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#advance #civilization #merely #nasty #nicer

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#back #been #century #demands #director

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people. ↗

— Ed Harris

#conservative #country #current #current administration #extreme

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#after #al #al gore #allowed #any

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#existing #freedom #heart #limited #matter

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#art #definition #imperfect #inasmuch #mere