#ape

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. ↗

— Russell Banks

#anti-war #brown #chapel #chapel hill #civil

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. ↗

— Christian Bale

#came #cape #covering #damn #damn thing

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. ↗

— David Baltimore

#argument #been #calling #cloning #congress

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#brain #escape #eyes #i #i am

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#free #free world #i #one time #six

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#death #disgrace #entitled #escape #life

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ↗

— Harold Acton

#marred #more #often #paper #real

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#been #boundaries #build #compelling #creation