#ally

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' ↗

— George Saunders

#desire #ego #feeling #get #good

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#branch #general #language #languages #laws

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. ↗

— Adam Savage

#data #experiment #failed #really #science

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven. ↗

— Adam Savage

#felt #finally #going #got #heaven

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

#agree #always #conclusions #different #friends

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ↗

— George Santayana

#pay #people #rather #really #regard

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ↗

— George Santayana

#arrogant #blood #cocked #deep #delight