„He has the attention span of a hummingbird.“
— Christopher Moore American writer of comic fantasy 1957
Quelle: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
„I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.“
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„He has the attention span of a bolt of lightning.“
— Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008
Robert Redford, quoted in Maureen Dowd, "Testing Himself," The New York Times (1986-09-28), section 6, page 16, column 1
„America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span.“
— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
Quelle: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 234)
„Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.“
— Lauren Bacall American actress, model 1924 - 2014
Speaking of Frank Sinatra
Larry King interview (2005)
„As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I'm sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I'll name one. Bankers with long attention spans don't lend money to people who can't pay it back. If we had more bankers who adopted a long-term view of their responsibilities, we might not be in the middle of a financial crisis that is blowing away 150-year-old investment banks.“
— Neal Stephenson American science fiction writer 1959
In response to whether Anathem "reflects today's culture or politics," from an interview published Sept. 22, 2008 by MIT News http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/stephenson-qa-0922.html
„I just love cocaine.“
— John Belushi American comedian, actor, and musician 1949 - 1982
Quoted in: Bill Crawford . Adam Sandler: America's Comedian. 2015. p. 76
„Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
„Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.“
— Agatha Christie, buch Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
„Among a certain class this winter, there wasn't a party in Delhi that didn't have cocaine.“
— Maneka Gandhi Indian politician and activist 1956
On Delhi's drug problem, as quoted in "New Kicks on The Block" http://archives.digitaltoday.in/indiatoday/05041999/cover.html, India Today (5 April 1999)
1991-2000
„I started taking cocaine and drink … I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.“
— Damien Hirst artist 1965
On the Way to Work, Faber and Faber, 2001.
„The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.“
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
„SPAN ID=All_that_we> All that we have to do is to pick them out of the dictionary and string them in the right order…. </SPAN“
— Colin Cherry British scientist 1914 - 1979
Quelle: On Human Communication (1957), Language: Science and Aesthetics, p.68
„I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.“
— Boris Johnson British politician, historian and journalist 1964
"Londoner's Diary", Evening Standard, 17 October 2005, p. 15.
2000s, 2005
„What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!“
— Peter Kropotkin Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer 1842 - 1921
The Conquest of Bread (1907), p. 14 http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/conquest/toc.html
Variant: All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth... All is for all!
This variant was probably produced by a combination of accidental as well as deliberate omission, rather than a separate translation.
Kontext: The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth.
All things are for all. Here is an immense stock of tools and implements; here are all those iron slaves which we call machines, which saw and plane, spin and weave for us, unmaking and remaking, working up raw matter to produce the marvels of our time. But nobody has the right to seize a single one of these machines and say, "This is mine; if you want to use it you must pay me a tax on each of your products," any more than the feudal lord of medieval times had the right to say to the peasant, "This hill, this meadow belong to me, and you must pay me a tax on every sheaf of corn you reap, on every rick you build."
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!
„I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.“
— Sigmund Freud, buch The Interpretation of Dreams
Quelle: The Interpretation of Dreams
