#ear

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there. ↗

— Andy Richter

#being #being funny #cause #creating #flowers

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#became #could #earthquake #experience #fact

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#compare #correction #distance #earthquakes #i

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence. ↗

— Slick Rick

#growth #had #hasn #hiphop #stages

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#derived #earthquake #energy #introduces #quantity

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#job-searching #joblessness #jobs #middle-class #dreams

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#crush #heart #life #will #your

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#did #enough #good #i #in my opinion

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#cheese #collect #dear #eggs #excellency