#v

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#having #might #much #over #person

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#bob #ethical #ethics #ford #gerry

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#college students #congress #environment #environmentalist #everyone

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #communication #few #forms #heard

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#around #bag #because #book #everything

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#dad #had #i #i think #inventor

I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world. ↗

— John J. McCloy

#found #i #loud #out #raise

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#aging #beauty #body #desire #dream

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. ↗

— Edie McClurg

#bowl #czech #czech republic #decided #different