#ding

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kindness #understanding #empathy

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #magazines #movies #reading #vulgarity

People can be so emotionally unintelligent. When I ask them how they’re doing they just make brusque comments like “I’m good, thanks.” After years of trying to get cashiers to talk about their feelings and having to deal with the bottled-up aggression of the customers behind me, I’ve lost all faith in humanity’s ability to connect with each other at the checkout counter. ↗

— Bauvard

#cashiers #funny #humor #faith

Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate. ↗

— E.E. Knight

#funny

I prefer to have people read books for me and then summarize them in a few sentences. It’s the same as if I had read them myself, except it takes longer. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #reading #summarizing #funny

JESSICA: When did you last go to London? HUGH: When I read a Dickens novel. That was when I resolved never to travel there. ↗

— Bauvard

#britain #dickens #funny #humor #london

I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#conversation #conversations #humor #nod #nodding-off

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#humor #humor

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day. ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#introverts #reading #humor