#ding

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#better #bike #biking #body #gym

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#back #black #black and white #constitution #each

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. ↗

— David Suzuki

#including #just #most #oil #other

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ↗

— David Gerrold

#does #immune #laws #mean #operations

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#kick #live #once #reasonably #together

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#human intelligence #intelligence #intelligible #laws #mathematics

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

#outstanding #status #suppose #symbols #were

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#become #being #big #burning #destroyed