#live

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#constitutes #controlling #dream #earth #field

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho. ↗

— John Hawkes

#angeles #austin #branded #cast #i

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#culture #encourage #human #intuition #intuitive

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ↗

— Clement Freud

#drinking #give #just #live #longer

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#friends #great #guys #i #mann

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ↗

— William Gaddis

#comics #gets #live #more #time

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american society #another #attack #attention #ballistic

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#close #completely #except #haven #i

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor. ↗

— Sonia Gandhi

#find #growing #improve #lives #millions