Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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“Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette
“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo by Nicole Ottawa.
“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14
NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark
Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show.” - Ada Lovelace
Illustration by Moebius
“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes
Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.
"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown
Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-snake-how-trump-appr…/….
“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks
https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/
Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.
“The 2008 bank bailout cost more than has been spent on NASA since it was started in 1959.” - Chris Impey
Collage by Felipe Posada.
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon
Photo by Dave Roth
Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. - Doug Stanhope
“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
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West
Photo by Helen Levitt
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/
Illustration by John Holcraft
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. - Susan Sontag
A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream. - Ruth Krauss
Illustration by Maurice Sendak
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
Comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
Illustration by John Holcroft
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.” - Mark Twain
Illustration by Juan Carlos Paz
“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston
Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/
"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.