#lists

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists. ↗

— Oxana Chusovitina

#because #chance #child #lists #many

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#because #before #biases #conduct #i

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas. ↗

— Jim Walton

#before #cnn #dangerous #deploying #equip

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ↗

— Karl Marx

#employed #labor #machines #may #quell

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ↗

— Johann Most

#commonwealth #communists #convinced #establishment #improvement

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗

— John Irving

#novelists #psychiatrists #science #sigmund-freud #science

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#journalists #media #newspapers #love

The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars containing perfect nouns. Enough nouns connected one to the other create a verb, and verbs had created everything, had skittered across the face of the void like pebbles across a frozen pond. She had not created a verb herself, but the cherry-wood cabinet in the hall contained book after book, jar after jar, vessel upon vessel, all brown as branches, and she had faith. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#lists #words #writing #faith

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. ↗

— Brad Leithauser

#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope