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  • A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

    Girl   Dog   Baby  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

    Life   Distance   Views  
    Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who simply couldn't accept the fact that I was doing something that they perceived as being a radical departure from Avenue Q.

    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

    Regret   Flower   Men  
  • Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

    Sadness   Reality   Men  
  • To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

  • Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

  • An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

  • Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal...

    "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.
  • Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

  • Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

    Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.47
  • The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

    Art   Eye   Soul  
  • Departure should be sudden.

  • The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

    War   Wish   Facts  
    Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
  • What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

    Men   Thinking   Doe  
  • Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

    Reality   Light   Dust  
  • Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  • Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.

  • Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography”, p.128, Penguin UK
  • An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

    Artist   Reality   Looks  
  • Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

    Drinking   Sleep   Heaven  
  • As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

    Source: collider.com
  • Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

    Interview, quod.lib.umich.edu.
  • But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.

    Running   Grief   Dark  
    Francine Prose (2011). “Sicilian Odyssey”, p.26, National Geographic Books
  • The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

    Change   Death   Wisdom  
    Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”
  • I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.

    "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

    Air   Enemy   Defense  
    "The World Crisis". Volume I,
  • Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

    Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins
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