#ss

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

These humiliations are the essence of the game. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#game #humiliations #these

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#doctors #earth #encompass #engineers #food

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#about #after #ago #assault #began

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. ↗

— Perry Como

#day #doors #everything #fleeting #glass

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama. ↗

— Bill Condon

#approached #batman #because #done #enjoyment

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid. ↗

— Bill Condon

#avidly #back #been #dark #dark shadows

I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. ↗

— Bill Condon

#movies #question #successful #were #whale

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dissent #existential #individual #right #rightful