The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.
Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
