“Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.” WorldYearsBelieveCharacterProblemFightingStarsSpaceBoysFiveEventsMonstersObsessionFive YearsTeensContinuityCanon Author:John Hodgman
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.” MenHomeAgeGirlSpaceRoomsBoysDarknessAirDiseasePrisonSmellBoy And GirlHome HomeSmall Rooms Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.” WantBigsWantedSpaceBoysPollock Author:Stella Vine
“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!” KnowsWayWantYearsEyeGirlStarsSpaceAnimalBoysDesignOceanEngineersAstronautAnimal LoveBoy And GirlZoologist Author:Sally Ride
“2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.” WayBookSpaceBoysWonderfulDrugConceptsTheaterScreensVersionsHillsIndianGiantsThrownOdysseyConundrumsSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Robert Reed
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.” NeedsLooksGirlCoursesSportsSpaceAttentionAcceptingClassBoysTeachTeamEventsFootballCitizensEqualPrivilegeEqualityTreatedGet BetterTreatmentWomens RightsLightingFootball TeamSecond Class CitizensYearbookEqual Treatment Author:Mariah Nelson
“Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.” EarthGirlGamesSpaceBoysBenefitsExplorationStemSpace Travel Author:Nichelle Nichols
“As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.” ThinkingWorldLooksCountryDreamYoungNightSpaceBoysGrowing UpGrowingSpecialMoonIndiaAttractionVillageFar Away Author:Naveen Jain
“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.” KnowsKindLongHomeKidsSpaceCitiesBoysSawsTvsGrewEatingGrew UpStandingStaringBuyingCheeseBeefCircuitsFast FoodShortsStanding ThereEating Fast Food Author:Mike Judge
“And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.” WellsI CanCharacterRememberGirlThreeSpaceBoysBattleGunDareFighterBritainRaysPilotsToysCartoonCartoon CharacterFighter PilotBattle Of Britain Author:Nick Lowe
“I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.” KnowsYearsMeanActionStuffSpaceBoysWatchesWinnerCombiningFunny Family Author:Rhys Darby
“The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."” IfsWorldWholeShowsDreamKidsGirlSpaceInterestingHalfBoysAmbitionSlogansInteresting ThingsBoy And Girl Author:Geena Davis