“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
“Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” DoeStillsHomeLightLastsNightFightingStarsAirLandRedBraveWaveProofDawnBombsBroadsFlagsTwilightRocketsBannerBurstingStripesStreamingGlareLand Of The FreeBright Star Author:Francis Scott Key
“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.” YearsHumansStillsIdeasLightFightingStarsModernPlanetsDistanceScalesGood IdeasWarfareProvokingDivorcedUnthinkableModern WarfareLight Years Author:Iain Banks
“You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.” IfsWorldLongDoeRealityLastsFightingStarsRealizingMovieMmaOur WorldMovie StarJetProfessionalismUfcKickboxingReality Bites Author:Chuck Liddell
“in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.” ThinkingBodyEarthFightingWinningStarsCrowdsScoreLos AngelesMoldGet Ahead Book:Flash Fire Source: Flash Fire
“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.” IfsKnowsWayGivingFeelsMindBelieveHumansKindWarNightFightingSpeakStrongStarsKnownKnow HowStruggleSeaPossibilityWindIntellectualHotCalmCommunicateMysteriousGod LoveStaringContemplationIf I CouldHuman MindMysticFutility Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.” MomentsFightingThreeStarsSunSeaSummerDown AndFifty Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.” WorldIdeasWholeMotivationalMovingFightingStarsStepsBecomingGainsWhole WorldCowardMisfortunesSpheres Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.” KnowsWantFirstsDoeWarFilmCertainFightingStarsDecisionKnow HowAssumingStudiosPrioritiesSpotsCuriousNegotiationTrailers Author:Simon Kinberg
“Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems.” NeedsKindHas BeensTwoWarStatesFightingStarsLevelsUnitedEnemyUnited StatesFieldsNeededWeaponsIraqShootingBombsJustifyVietnamKoreaDefenceStrategicNorth KoreaOutrageousMissilesAdventAtomic BombExpendituresColombiaTacticalSubmarinesPanamaEl SalvadorGrenada Author:Michael Ruppert
“When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.” IfsLooksMadeRealFightingStarsQualityMuhammadKnittingStarters Author:Michael Parkinson