"I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn..."

-- Robert Hanbury Brown

#Distance Quotes #Tired Quotes #Echoes Quotes

“What you hope for, you also fear.”
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK
“We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.”
“In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.”
“I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.”
“There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.”
“Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”

Source : Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books
“When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.”

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