#ties

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#fiction #out #own #realities #science

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#around #being #contexts #disagree #enjoy

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities. ↗

— Donna Summer

#i #just #life #like #lots

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron ... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#morons #universities #beauty

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#capacities #impossibilities #opportunities #our #stretched

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#daughters #generation #had #never #new

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. ↗

— Michael Symon

#before #began #bobby #both #celebrities

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. ↗

— Tacitus

#judgment #leader #qualities #reason

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#cities #consideration #current #find #further