#per

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#i #love #movies #performance #spectacle

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#i #idea #love #machines #personality

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#coolest #i #know #most #mother

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#clear #consensus #experiencing #ignore #immediate

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#after #began #christianity #completely #fact

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#cooperation #effective #instrument #international #international cooperation

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. ↗

— Felix Adler

#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#catalogue #copies #could #did #found

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man