"It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit."

-- Roger L'Estrange

#Men Quotes #Mortification Quotes #Bores Quotes

“I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.”
“To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.”
“Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.”
“Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.”
“Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.”
“Thatâ€™s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
“Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.”

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