#pointing

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. ↗

— Terry Gross

#creates #disappointing #everyone #i #image

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#become #disappointing #focus #grateful #happened

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#collar #conservative #die #down #drop

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ↗

— George Orwell

#happens #illusion #invariably #progress #slow

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. ↗

— Robert Barany

#appeared #arm #complaint #experiment #later

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#could #disappointing #drama #i #life

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#agree #art #clicking #fine #i

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals