#bse

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #devour #eating #embrace #expect

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#father #hero #me

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#course #got #i #into #obsessed

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#bad #bad day #day #days #good

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#forces #material #nothing #observe #shapes

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#actually #between #care #expense #get

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#childhood #constructed #contact #continue #control

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#basic #became #biology #cells #class

For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #crowds #looking #observation #people-watching

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#because #birthday #copy #doing #done