#graph

If you can't make it good, make it big. ↗

— Michael Rowley

#design

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#experience

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humor

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#geography #humor #humour #humor

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. ↗

— Virginie Despentes

#sex #food

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#biography #done #great #history #writing

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. ↗

— Jacob Appelbaum

#math #violence #freedom