#pera

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ask #bag #bank #criminal #desperation

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#desperate #did #either #every #every time

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#build #cannot #every #every step #globalization

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. ↗

— Dario Argento

#dark #film #hope #hopeless #love

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#beginning #coming #cooperation #courtesy #here

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#far #faraway #future #happening #here

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#feeling #good #opera #people #plot

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#allowed #always #approach #felt #his