“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes
Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
“Documentary films are exceptionally good at communicating new knowledge about the world, and since tech giants and algorithms are really defining our everyday lives, it is absolutely crucial that our festival deals with and questions these great scientific and technological advances.” - Tine Fischer, CPH:DOX Film Festival
Source: https://realscreen.com/2021/03/26/cphdox-21-unveils-science-program-of-docs-and-debates/
“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud
Joan Fontaine reading comics.
“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon
Photo by Dave Roth
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks
https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/
Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny'. - Isaac Asimov
Photo - Isaac Asimov and Family
“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14
NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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