#her

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#had #i #involved #kid #law

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#back #coming #coming home #days #deal

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. ↗

— Richard Powers

#big #big picture #connects #everything #get

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#break #bucks #casting #director #first

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #authority #baptize #christian #churches

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #therapy #writing #life

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#around #business #consciously #going #reinvent

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#finds #found #graph #just #like