“If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!” IfsYearsMeanNextWinningNumbersActingClearCuttingOne ThingBotherAwardsTake MeClosestPeersGoing To WorkAcademyAcademy Awards Author:Dana Hill
“As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.” HumansMeanLevelsSpecialClosestDnaChimpanzeesPrimatesSpecial Things Author:Francis Collins
“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.” IfsMeanArtPerfectPowerfulIdentityPhotographyOrdinaryAspectAbsolutesDisappearDrawingClosestScrutinyResemblanceAbsolute TruthMicroscopesPhotogenic Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.” KnowsMeanHas BeensWarReligiousPureWestIslamRageRadicalReverenceClosestMartyrCharlieCartoonistRadical IslamCharlie Hebdo Author:Glenn Greenwald
“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.” PeopleMenBelieveMeanLittlesBookFactsWantedMotherFiveTreeHe ManSixManifestationClosestAstonishing Author:Fran Lebowitz