#tap

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity. ↗

— Stephen King

#metaphors #defeat

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions it hooks you fast and kills you hard. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#metaphor #revolution

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humanity #nothing #screwtape #soul #ambition

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#comes #demo #excited #important #important ingredient

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. ↗

— John Lawson

#attended #colonies #country #families #force

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. ↗

— Maimonides

#all things #assist #essence #established #every

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#equally #french #friend #gestapo #i

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ↗

— Karl Marx

#appears #brings #commodity #extremely #first

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#audience #before #begin #episode #grace

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#i #kind #like #love #spinal