#pass

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#british #censorship #creative #creative expression #day

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. ↗

— James Buchan

#adjusted #age #average #barrel #century

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#city #does #existence #had #hiroshima

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#face #fast #out #passport #pretty

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#came #drawn #god #impulse #our

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#care #caught #collect #courts #dollars

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#also #dreams #else #generous #includes

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#i #long #narrative #passages #readers

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#karma #karmic #love #meditation #personal-transformation