#ails

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#geeks #love #matter #much #people

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#calls #continue #days #death #fingernails

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#emails #get #i

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#afford #air #another #driven #falling

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. ↗

— Chris Christie

#am #bluntly #brother #children #could

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fails #him #kill #man #prisoner

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#high-tech #how #improve #just #lives

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#allowance #back #douglas #grammar #grammar school

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first