An Ingmar Bergman quote opens the little book: "I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images".
While re-reading the novels earlier this summer I found this tell-all quote opening a paragraph: "Most women enjoy semi-rape".
One interviewee describes the perfect public transport supply as follows: "Ideally, of course, would be having the subway right at the front door, and it would go everywhere and you wouldn't always have to change three times…" (male, single, 30 40 years, translated quote) Open image in new window Fig. 4 Regularly used transport modes of the interviewees.
That's one of the four quotes opening this document, borrowed from communication theorist Marshall McLuhan.
That's the "funniest thing" about Europe, he concluded, during the often quoted opening scene of Pulp Fiction: its people have embraced American culture without entirely losing their soul.
In the years since, the boy who came from Des Moines, Iowa – "somebody had to", as he put it in the oft quoted opening line of his 1989 American travel book, The Lost Continent – has progressed from an observer of life in Britain to an active participant via a series of public roles that roughly divide between the fields of conservation and science.
40 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills, was included on its 100 Years, 100 Quotes ("Open the pod bay doors, Hal")., and Hal 9000 is the No. 13 villain in the AFI's 100 Years ... 100Heroes and Villains.
Returning to the quote that opens this paper, "A well-designed model is, after all, a judiciously chosen set of lies, or… partial truths…." That is certainly true of the models we summarize in the top panel of Table 7.
My favorite chapter, The Perpetual Rookie, opens with this quote from John Wooden, "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts".
