#saga

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #age #always #back #band

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#did #express #fictitious #greek #heroic

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #curative #even #every #grand

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#business #itself #judicious #last #reduces

I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#dark #depends #different #different things #going

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#car #gas #getting #having #like

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#asks #draws #government #had #her

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison. ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #breathe #end-of-the-world #family-saga #oxygen

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#astronomy #atheism #carl-sagan #science #science

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#sagan #skepticism #humor