#ark

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. ↗

— Billy West

#clark gable #different #gable #john #john wayne

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#back #economy #feet #get #having

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#characteristics #comes #company #compared #competitive

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. ↗

— Joe Tex

#i #i was born #jersey #may #new

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#darkness #existed #kind #nothing #outside

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#field #kind #marked #peculiar #plant

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#good #great #how #mark #sportsmen

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#because #cannot #converts #experience #fluctuation