#log

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ↗

— Horace

#clogged #down #drags #excess #mind

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#data #i #incredible #just #just because

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#extraordinary #fifty #machine #man #men

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#children #christian #christian faith #faith #grateful

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#always #because #blogs #brings #down

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#charged #emotionally #ever #fulfill #hatred