"If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination."

-- Luke Ford

#Black Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Balloons Quotes

“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

Source : "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.
“I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parentsâ€™ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free.”
“People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.”
“A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.”
“To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.”

Source : George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.3
“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”
“Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, tv.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.
“The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.”

Source : "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (pp. 19-20), 1967.

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