The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.
There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love each other and help each other, kind of like a messed up extended family.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.
