#curate

I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#funny #funny

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. ↗

— Alan Bean

#artist #being #difficult #doing #found

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. ↗

— Mark Doty

#encouraging #life

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. ↗

— Jay Asher

#self-awareness #reason

Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you--just a tad--off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much--too tiring--and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy...or whatever...to happen. ↗

— Jay Asher

#reason

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#accurate #brilliant #exhaustive #far #far less

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure. ↗

— Lake Bell

#america #community #depiction #how #i

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave