#pro

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me. ↗

— Gary Ross

#back #fail #films #haunted #interesting

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#grow #mentally #only #problems #spiritually

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#different #had #i #methods #produce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#evolution #know #proceeds #vague

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#bulk #came #hit #improvisation #lines

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#alone #american #american audience #audience #british

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#got #hospital #i #nervous #prove

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic book #day #had #i

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#bit #comics #downhill #improved #kind