#tend

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around. ↗

— Rider Strong

#front #green #green screen #how #jumping

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? ↗

— Sally Struthers

#chopping #forbid #gets #god #kissing

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #instance #playing #respond #sound

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#christianity #church #devil #god #god almighty

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. ↗

— John Sununu

#call #ceos #contend #critics #executives

Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#cast #could #doctor #filming #fun