“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.” SpiritMy OwnActingConsciousnessGreaterTasksPressesPossessed Author:Conrad Veidt
“I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.” MenIdeasArtistMy OwnGreaterSkillsBeing YourselfGreat ArtGreat ArtistAnimator Author:Walt Disney
“As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.” IfsHas BeensTodayBeautifulGivenMy OwnGreaterRegretMarkWinnerPrizeAwardsNobelNobel PrizeCountrymenNobel Prize Winners Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.” Life IsMy OwnGreaterActivityLettersFilledContentmentMy Own LifeMomentary Book:A Woman of Independent Means Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.” WorldLittlesPersonsReasonWholeMy OwnGreaterDestructionFingersAffectionContraryWhole WorldRuinsFormerIndianLatterPreferenceArdentUneasiness Author:David Hume