#cal

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#basically #called #continuing #education #enrolled

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#appeal #appeals #everyone #getting #getting old

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices. ↗

— David Rose

#call #devices #i #internet #part

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#call #consequences #dollar #her #life

Silence is more musical than any song. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#more #musical #silence #song #than

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#ahead #because #catch #count #discovered

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ↗

— Diana Ross

#choose #coming #going #heart #i

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#bit #different #different kind #especially #eye

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information