"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."

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Source : Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.492, tredition

Plautus

#Brother Quotes #Badness Quotes

“The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.”
“Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.”
“Once a month, try something you donâ€™t think youâ€™d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Aug 15, 2013
“And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.”
“Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.”

Source : "The Composer in the Machine Age". Book by George Gershwin (p. 386), 1933.
“One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good dayâ€™s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good dayâ€™s work?'”
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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