#extra

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. ↗

— Major Taylor

#always #battle #because #color #dreadful

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#created #extraordinary #freedom #genius #old

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#hollywood #kind #place #temporary

You tell me you love me, but I’m not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you’d use to shoot it down. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#aliens #extra-terrestrial #flies #fly #flying

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. ↗

— Susan Cain

#democracy #extraversion #introversion #change

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#above #am #best #born #deep

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996] ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#humor #intelligent-life #life #science #universe

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States. ↗

— Carlos Alvarez

#available #became #brand #corona #exclusively