#scheme

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I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.


Steven Soderbergh


#complex #demands #figure #film #films

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse)


Robert Burns


#fate #men #mice #planning #plans

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.


Kurt Vonnegut


#crowning #evolution #far #glory #human

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.


Samuel Butler


#devise #irish #nation #now #old

The reclamation scheme is both feasible and desirable.


James Gadsden


#desirable #feasible #scheme

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.


Callum McDougall


#budding #cards #comes #directors #down

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.


Josh McDowell


#been #christ #convince #dead #earth

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.


Amy Goodman


#earnings #investors #involves #money #new

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.


Katharine Graham


#as far as #denied #facts #failed #far

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.


Jonathan Swift


#desires #feet #like #off #our