#numb

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#anthropology #anything #call #diverse #done

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical. ↗

— William E. Geist

#joseph #mary #me #much #number

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#around #by the time #directors #flash #going

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost. ↗

— George Gerbner

#delivery #largest #least #number #people

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

#arrive #arrives #best #feel #finds

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. ↗

— Seth Godin

#align #because #change #connect #factories

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#danger #employees #firefighters #hesitate #huge

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ↗

— Graham Greene

#created #evolution #failed #god #his

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#conversation #forum #hold #limited #limited number