#ear

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#cinema #contemporary #degree #last #minuscule

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#adult #appeared #audience #audiences #cinemas

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#going #i #later #left #literally

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. ↗

— George Wald

#every #learned #lives #must #others

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. ↗

— George Wald

#casts #especially #everywhere #found #grateful

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. ↗

— George Wald

#having #ideological #material #nothing #nuclear

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. ↗

— George Wald

#alive #appear #back #billion #creature

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured. ↗

— Greg Walden

#businesses #coverage #every #huge #increases