Post taggati americana
Erano intelligenti, le loro menti erano già disciplinate alla chiarezza della scienza, e avevano sedici anni.
Grissom e Young durante la vestizione per il primo volo del programma Gemini - di Norman Rockwell, 1965, olio su tela (via l’Espresso - Arte e spazio, cinquant’anni di esplorazione)
Scott-Heron, Gil - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron
(via crookedindifference)
(Fonte: internerd)
Having an adventure is a sign that something unexpected, something unprovided against, has
happened; it shows that some one is incompetent, that something
has gone wrong. For that reason we pride ourselves on the fewness
An adventure is interesting enough in retrospect,
especially to the person who didn’t have it
——
in retrospettiva un’avventura è abbastanza interessante,
specie per chi non la ha vissuta.
Vilhjálmur Stefánsson MY LIFE WITH THE ESKIMO (166)
citato da Geoffrey A. Landis in Mars Crossing
The desire to befriend him came over me suddenly and certainly, and, as I debated and decided not to shake his hand again, I thought how suddenness and certainty had attended all my childhood friendships, until that long, miserable moment of puberty during which I’d been afraid to befriend boys and seemingly unable to befriend girls.
