#bs

Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's been carved on it. In "termite art" though, your slab has been wormholed countless times, and its meaning is really taking place in the resulting interstices. The actual art of the piece, in other words, and your enjoyment of it, is taking place in the cracks, and the shape of the slab is coincidental and ultimately meaningless. ↗

— William Gibson

#farber #gibson-blog #writing #art

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#america #available #begun #border #cities

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#inevitable #life #meet #need #obstacles

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments. ↗

— Robert Barany

#conducted #did #even #experiments #fact

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. ↗

— Chris Barber

#introverted #life #music #self-absorbed #their

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ↗

— Bob Barker

#depend #experience #how #i #i do

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#artists #bit #feels #getting #headlines