#alien

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#alien #among #cast #dim #enter

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#helpful #i #i think #imf #know

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#alien #experiencing #fever #industrialists #inhabited

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #another #because #different #director

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#come #declare #entitled #happiness #i

A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I hoped was a smile. At least there weren't any sharp teeth. ↗

— Mary G. Thompson

#kids-sci-fi #kids-science-fiction #middle-grade-sci-fi #middle-grade-science-fiction #sci-fi

Sin duda, nada es más natural hoy día que ver a las gentes trabajar de la mañana a la noche y en seguida elegir, entre el café, el juego y la charla, el modo de perder el tiempo que les queda por vivir. ↗

— Albert Camus

#sociedad #spanish #nature

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#belonging #culture #language #other #nature

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arrival #immigrants #land #latest #simply

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Baker

#any #because #being #benevolent #carefully