#graphical

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. ↗

— Anne Seward

#eminent #failings #good #just #record

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#experience

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#attitude

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#communication #connections #distance #divide #down

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#combination #comes #felt #i #influences

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#autobiographical #confession #diary #even #film

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. ↗

— John Tukey

#focus #graphical #numerical #quantities #unexpected