#ms

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours. ↗

— Holly Black

#moms #sensitive #strong #advice

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#happy-endings #film

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#exist #games #great #high-end #make

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#science #systems #science

A brick is a barometer of love. Give it to the girl of your dreams, and see if she uses it to build a life with you, or as a high velocity projectile.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #dreams

A great story is life with the dull parts taken out. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#life

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls! ↗

— Reif Larsen

#danger #fear #life

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#knowledge #problems #information

I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca. ↗

— Lyda Morehouse

#science-fiction #dreams