#ang

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#deal #everything #expectations #going #grand

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#fit #foot #must #shoe

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. ↗

— Sai Baba

#available #change #contained #end #essence

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change. ↗

— Howard Bach

#because #change #i #i think #mentality

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#else #feel #i #lyrics #myself

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help. ↗

— Roy Spencer

#been #believe #change #climate #climate change

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism