#says

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#man #once #says

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#away #cows #enough #face #facts

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all". ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#justice #liberty #pledge #says

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#ever #everything #face #his #interesting

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama! ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#barack #barack obama #better #case #congressman

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#bang #big #big bang #direction #discovered