#am

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assumptions #body #calculating #changed #data

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#astronomy #brightness #brought #interest #magnitude

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#job-searching #joblessness #jobs #middle-class #dreams

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#call #described #down #escaped #experience

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#am #fall #fire #gun #him

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#ethnic #game #maintain #must #national

We stand sideways. We sleep on floors in cramped resort hotel rooms. We get up early and go to sleep late. We've been mocked. We are relentless. We dream it, we make it, we break it, we fix it. We create. We destroy. We wreck ourselves day in and day out and yet we stomp that one trick or find that one line that keeps us coming back. We progress. We Snowboard. ↗

— burton snowboards

#dreams

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#game #greatest #history #material #our

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#break up #communities #disastrous #effects #families