#mati

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#anything #book #books #bought #dramatically

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#best #choice #given #i #i think

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#death #dramatic #drawn #element #even

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#bed #child #childhood #i #most

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #array #bombings #citizens #defending

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#been #compromise #conduct #financial #government

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#ambition #animation #chances #come #deep

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. ↗

— Claude Shannon

#negative #probability #reciprocal #value

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#believe #called #censorship #get #i