#directions

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#ask #because #directions #even #forty

Exit pursued by a bear." [STAGE DIRECTIONS in The Winter's Tale (III, iii)] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #stage-directions #humor

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions. ↗

— Martin Gore

#chosen #different #different directions #directions #i

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#chest #directions #growing #hair #men

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#course #democracy #development #directions #finds

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fear #finding #full #give #hope

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#back #both #call #cycling #directions

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#base #between #communication #developers #directions