#ran

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#band #blue #everyone #guitar #i

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

#bad fortune #come #conquered #endurance #fortune

Trust not too much to appearances. ↗

— Virgil

#appearances #much #too #too much

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#does #globalization #light #merely #speed

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#brandi-bates #food #girls #love #poetry

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brand new #called #easily #new #now

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable. ↗

— Joe Viterelli

#exactly #films #funny #looking #opposite

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#exclusively #idea #into #mental #mind

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#cure #education #formal #formal education #fortifies