#mean

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#each #everyone #extremes #goofy #i

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#irrelevant #meaning #morality #motivation #myths

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel. ↗

— Joel Silver

#cars #effects #evolution #feel #feeling

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#emotion #harmless #meaning #meaning of #only

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#choices #find #friends #hard #i

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#because #being #ethnically #funny #i

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#intelligence #lack #meaning #universe #without