#bar

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#bar #finished #give #going #got

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#intelligence #intelligence

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? ↗

— Tom Clancy

#computer #drives #embarrass #guy #him

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bare #bare feet #delights #earth #feel

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#bars #behind #failing #long-term #outcome

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#been #charged #clients #cynical #defend

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #bold #doubt #embark #ever

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#been #biological #book #certain #completely

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#between #dark #fear #happen #hard