#air

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. ↗

— Mel Torme

#began #dad #did #fans #film

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#chair #dog #every #every time #friendly

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#even #fairway #god #hit #hold

My hair was famous before I was. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#famous #hair #i

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#became #been #before #bulk #doing

If our air forces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. ↗

— Nathan F. Twining

#air #finest #forces #goal #never

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. ↗

— John Updike

#affair #applause #does #glory #private

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arbitrary #based #both #bulbs #catchy

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#big #big fan #fairly #fan #fast