#out

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#about #anthropology #astronomy #fun #geology

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #into #keep #main #mine

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#dreamed #i #illustrator #youth

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#along #came #cell #cell phones #compression

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ↗

— George Byron

#creeps #ever #happens #like #out

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ↗

— David Byrne

#been #camera #i #landscapes #learned

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. ↗

— David Byrne

#friends #hear #magazine #newspaper #people