#ants

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#ghosts #hippos #moonlight #simile #simile

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#not-simple #wanting #wants #love

Everybody wants to be perfect. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#perfect #wants

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. ↗

— Athanasius

#anyone #approximation #city #clear #country

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #hungry #i #i think #just

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. ↗

— Max Baer

#define #early #fear #go #go home

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. ↗

— Bo Bice

#contestants #first #folks #get #green