#din

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#cup #forget #i #leading #never

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. ↗

— Charles Vest

#between #came #clear #door #eroding

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. ↗

— Tim Vine

#coffee #dates #day #deadline #every

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#developers #even #most #naturally #proceeding

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#always #dead #dinner #either #having

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. ↗

— John Warner

#activities #buildings #community #how #more

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#bodies #budget #casting #covered #enough

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #defeat #hands #help #information