#aw

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#come #country #creature #dawn #dusk

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#connected #could #draw #early #i

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#company #curate #drawing #dukes #feel

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ↗

— John James Audubon

#cared #cares #drawing #every #fishing

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. ↗

— John James Audubon

#aware #better #birds #english #habits

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#difficult #entropy #grasp #i #increases

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. ↗

— Paul Auster

#america #awhile #back #become #been

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music. ↗

— Eric Avery

#away #got #guy #i #long

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#council #due #impossible #saw #security