#bin

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry. ↗

— Esai Morales

#describing #dry #dumb #full-bodied #i

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗

— John Waters

#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#ang lee #book #children #combination #comic

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. ↗

— Elon Musk

#cell #cells #challenge #chemicals #collection

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#arc #around #artist #crawling #describing

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#before #climbing #few #follow #going

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#bludgeoning #instinct #just #more #precision

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#ago #book #calculations #called #comes

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. ↗

— River Phoenix

#climbing #consume #corporate #hands #just

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon