#astonishing

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#brains #definitely #effort #many #people

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#astonishingly #childhood #culture #get #html

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. ↗

— John Malkovich

#clothes #coverage #era #fashion #i

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#head #reading #stories #ten

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#american families #astonishing #back #been #care

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#around #astonishing #australia #beautiful #beautiful places

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #him #i #man #poor

There's so much you thought you could never face. The decision not to try to control your power, to let it be your demon. Too shameful to remember, so you let it eat your life up instead. But you're past it now, Scott. And all you had to defeat, all you had to let go of...was you. You're free, my love. You're free. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#emma-frost #joss-whedon #life

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architect #architecture #art #astonishingly #build

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #shadowcat #life