#err

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#filmmaking #great #hendrix #inspiration #jimi

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeal #discovery #good #good sense #into

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

#altogether #ape #drunkard #human #irrational

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. ↗

— George Santayana

#infinitude #man #once #overcome #own

I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#bin #came #enhanced #fact #found

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#any #conversation #hard #i #initiate

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. ↗

— Dan Savage

#freedom #man #other #override #people

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#any #deadline #done #even #had

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#each #else #everybody #everybody else #feel