#guide

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#architecture #book #calling #dispute #follies

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan. ↗

— Peter King

#any #anyone #bill #court #cut

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#awareness #christian #christian ethic #ethic #guided

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial. ↗

— Robert Wise

#cast #casting #crucial #done #down

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board. Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#happiness #hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy #humor #logic #music

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#go #guide #hand #somebody #take

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#outwards #universe #within #worked

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back. ↗

— Manute Bol

#america #back #gave #god #good

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#been #being #best #cake #everything

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#going #guide #had #i #interest