“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
Photo by Juan Carlos Paz
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny'. - Isaac Asimov
Photo - Isaac Asimov and Family
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf
Photo of a single blade of grass under a microscope.
“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.
— Orson Welles
Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.
This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather
“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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