#chan

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#fine #fundamental #heat #indeed #indestructible

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#chance #fickle #got #just #quite

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. ↗

— Keith Henson

#evolved #exquisitely #humans #sensitive #status

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#always #because #blame #brothers #change

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#chance #city #even #everything #got

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#change #creative #hypnotized #images #improved

The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #change #culture #find #harder

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#big #branches #bud #changing #drop

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. ↗

— Anita Hill

#changed #experience #life #my life #testifying

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#both #cooperation #develop #exchange #government