“Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.” PeopleIfsMindStillsHappensWould BeWhiteWalksScaredStoresMake SenseDepartmentDepartment Stores Author:Jordan Peele
“Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!” YearsMadeStillsDreamEnjoyHalfFoodHundredDiscoveryPressureStoresKingdomsPityAtmosphereAbundanceDishesGlobesTravelerLapUnbornMineralsImportation Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy
“All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.” PeopleKnowsMindMayStillsWholeRunningFilmGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsAll ThingsStoresWho I AmVideoTake TimeCablesDichotomy Author:Robby Benson
“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.” StillsMightActionWhiteBoysGrewGrew UpTownsStoresTexasSouthernGroceriesAffirmative ActionAffirmativeGrocery Stores Author:Bill Moyers
“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.” WorldWayStillsTwoIdeasHumanityLanguageStarsUnderstandingViewsWestNotionAvailableStoresChineseImmortalityTwo WaysExplodingCrabsUnderstanding The WorldNebula Book:Great Ideas in Physics Source: Great Ideas in Physics
“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.” WorldChildrenArtStillsNamesStarsLinesDarknessTakenStrangeShapesEternityDepthStoresGladWanderTheeReasoningPensFearfulSageThyselfCalculatingSunbeamsDraught Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes