“There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is Zodiac, and that didn't perform that well.” IfsKnowsWellsMadeDoneCertainHavensAmountLowsStudiosRankingZodiac Author:Chloe Sevigny
“I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.” FeelsFirstsKindMadeKidsFacesFeltSweetKeysMetsComfortableLowsFirst TimeStoresNervousCandyWipeSuperstarLow KeyReally SweetCandy Stores Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.” MadePassionHouseLandLowsDirectUniversalInstitutionsAssumingIllNobleTyrannyRuinsMultitudesProphecyVulgarParliamentSpoilRefinedFlatteringVerifyMeddlingHouse Of CommonsCompetencies Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.” MenMadeEndsFormTechnologyModernCenturyBuildingLowsArchitectureTallArchitectDoomedTwentieth CenturyDilemmaCalculationsConcentratingPatronTall Buildings Author:Martin Filler
“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.” KnowsMenMadeStillsSoulHomeEvilPayCitiesTeachHonestHe ManGrewLateLowsShameLaysTrainFolksCurrentsDeedsMade ItPay The PricePractiseWarpVillainy Book:Antigone Source: Antigone
“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.” MadeHeavenDoorsSonLowsCarpenterStoops Author:Austin O'Malley
“Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.” MadeSpaceChangedPaintingLowsBiggerStudiosCeilingsHorizontal Author:James Rosenquist
“The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.” FirstsMadeSelfDisciplineLowsExpectationsRestraintEffectivenessModernityVulgaritySelf RestraintHigh ExpectationsLow Expectations Author:Allan Bloom