I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.
There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
You can't have justice unless you have truth.
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.
I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
