#rail

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cd #could #couple #everything #get

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#blind #braille #damned #fun #i

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#against #anyone #asking #better #casting

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#amazing #bigger #budgets #care #dictates

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#glimpses #human #human strength #me #physician

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#dreadful #end #eyes #frailties #i

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#express #grail #holy #holy grail #i

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dared #draw #machine #premises #press