Derived Quantities Quotes & Sayings

Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again. — Jeff Jarvis

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect. — Harriet Walter

The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles. — Willem Dafoe

In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of art and that of a purely religious experience. Arts acts above all on the soul shaping its spiritual structure. — Andrei Tarkovsky

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. — John Gunther

Kindness is always more powerful than rightness, because rightness is only right but kindness is always right but with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

We are all guilty of the good we did not do — Voltaire

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is. — Lisa Randall

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. — Samuel Adams

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. — Edmund Waller

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message' (more commonly, 'linguistic turn'). 'Being that can be be understood is language', Heidegger would later state - which conversely implies that language abandoned by being becomes mere chatter. — Peter Sloterdijk

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character. — Amber Heard