#ding

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it. ↗

— Jo Walton

#attitude

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#foresee #future #i #i can #i do

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attributes #combine #efforts #encouraging #enthusiasm

I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#country #cow #criticism #found #had

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#any #challenge #cure #discovering #effective

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#catastrophe #concern #current #current events #deal

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ↗

— James Thurber

#cake #dangerous #most #wedding

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. ↗

— William Empson

#fly #heart #standing #you

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ↗

— Michael Ende

#above #architect #because #building #cheaper

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s. ↗

— John Engler

#been #country #debate #focused #funding