#rat

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#afresh #again #damn #every #generation

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' ↗

— Sally Field

#born #congratulations #doctor #i #i was born

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anyone #i #media #society #strategically

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ↗

— Bob Filner

#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county. ↗

— Bob Filner

#county #health #health care #health care system #integrated

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#dollars #find #five #hundred #i

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#found #laboratory #lots #never #practice

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. ↗

— Irving Fisher

#acts #between #interest #link #rate

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

#culture #discourses #experience #frame #ideological