#to

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#days #endeavors #fire #intolerance #modern

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#catholic church #church #depiction #meant #meant to be

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#fiction #hope #i #i think #novels

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#elementary #elementary school #i #missouri #school

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#how #humor #odd #often #together

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#anything #delusional #life #life is too short #notions

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#grips #hits #i #idea #ideas

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#cook #focusing #his #i #kitchen