#rap

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#reading #biography

We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles. ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

#biography

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗

— Mary MacLane

#selfishness #biography

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#biography

One man's pornography is another man's theology. ↗

— Clive Barker

#theology #theology

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#paraphrased #charity

Above all else show the data. ↗

— Edward R. Tufte

#graphics #statistics #visualization

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams. ↗

— Barry Manilow

#barry-manilow #inspirational #dreams

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#arrogance #because #better #certain #feel

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature