#ali

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#around #corner #else #even #every

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#audience #bengali #bombay #cities #class

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#bombay #changed #did #film #films

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#beautiful #beautiful women #cars #clothes #dollars

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#alone #another #come #die #dying

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #essentially #formed #good #human

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. ↗

— Sun Ra

#called #dealing #great #i #truth