#vision

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill. ↗

— Howard Finster

#building #chapel #could #dome #done

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#antidote #bosses #concentration #demands #disaster

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ↗

— Mark Kurlansky

#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#i #i wish #life #real #real life

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#black #good #ideas #industry #like

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american people #change #choice #course #double

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#breaking #cable #interesting #mad #mad men

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it. ↗

— Bess Truman

#church #division #entire #full #going

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live. ↗

— Gordon R. Dickson

#science-fiction #visionary #science

I had no choice but to accept these voices and images as my gift. My ability. Their energy engrossed my music. I played passionately for them. To set them free. They were part of my life now. I didn't chose them, they chose me."...Elizabeth (DESCENDANT– chapter 2) ↗

— L.J. Amodeo

#life