#dying

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ↗

— William Law

#conceive #day #extravagant #fly #his

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#dying #first #gladly #house #i

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#anything #before #college #comedic #drama

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#been #construction #giraffe #learn #nasa

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#also #anecdotal #because #breakthroughs #child

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#dying #minutes #out #over #people

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#did #football #history #i #interested

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#carefully #child #children #concept #death

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#dying #find #left #many #out