#alley

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs. ↗

— Tim Conway

#eating #eggs #i #much #out

WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO? YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO- THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION! Harry started to laugh. He heard a weak sort of moan beside him and looked round to see Mrs. Weasley gazing, dumbfounded, at the poster. Her lips moved, silently mouthing the name 'U-No-Poo. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#fred-and-george #funny #funny

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#batteries #company #doing #early #ended

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #india #realized #silicon #silicon valley

My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#bought #build #building #going #green

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #better #better future #blessed #death

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#bordering #commonly #drift #graze #meet

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#attached #been #fact #higher #higher levels