#hum

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#been #celebrations #certain #friendly #human

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#against #fate #humanity #measured #our

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

#became #bruce #feels #from time to time #him

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? ↗

— Richard Corliss

#artist #attractive #business #challenging #essences

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#bring #failed #formula #fulfill #had

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#because #bring #dose #dress #giving

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive