#hens

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. ↗

— David Brooks

#causes #comprehensible #confront #cult #death

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me. ↗

— Alton Brown

#band #business #called #doors #film

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#athens #democracy #fly #foreign #greece

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athens #begin #construct #faster #games

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#away #breath #caught #country #democratic

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#asia #athens #beauty #confronted #europe

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#blocking #care #comprehensive #deliberately #fact

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. ↗

— Eugene Field

#ace #apprehension #else #king #momentary

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#across #british #come #compared #comprehensive