#mob

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#come #first #many #moby #moby dick

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#birds #envy #fly #free #kind

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗

— William Powell

#cultivate #few #friends #merriment #mob

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. ↗

— Stendhal

#humor #mob-mentality #peer-pressure #humor

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#claire-danvers #eve-rosser #michael-glass #mobile #morganville-vampires

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny #mob #business

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#life #mobile #phone #technology #business

Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy--start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--cucumbers is the word--easy, easy--only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys--that's all. Start her! ↗

— Herman Melville

#moby-dick #death