#or

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ↗

— Horace Mann

#former #jails #latter #less #many

If there’s a vote taken as to which aspect of God I treasure the most, I’d say laughing. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

When you’re by yourself you can act as mature as you want, or as silly as you want – it makes no difference. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot. ↗

— Michael Mann

#cannot #choices #controls #could #creativity

I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach. ↗

— Michael Mann

#becomes #coach #crowe #directors #down

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#black community #community #destiny #determine #dissertation

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#bitter #degree #democrats #deteriorated #healthy

You know, sometimes there’s absolutely nothing you can say about what you’ve been through, nothing. The whole trip is mind boggling. All you can do is shake your head and smile. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-" "Jesus," said Clary "I doubt he'd fit." "Jace." Clary was appalled. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #irony #jace-wayland #jesus #humor