Declining Balance Quotes & Sayings

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. — Peter Jackson

Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize. — Bob Marley

The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed. — Jacques Barzun

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. — Ken Livingstone

But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dangerous, it's the emerging position that's dangerous. — George Friedman

We licked batteries to feel a metallic jolt on the tongue, rumored to be one-eighteenth of an orgasm. — Emma Cline

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show. — Cary Fukunaga

Charisma
the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves — Paulo Coelho