#eight

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#chemical #constitution #dealing #determined #difficulty

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#heights #international #literature #make #rises

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#i #socializing #solid #streets #training

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#generally #less #more #put #weight

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ↗

— Eric Liu

#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#agonizing #almost #called #diabolical #eight

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#eight #i #old #years

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#better #champion #city #could #down

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.' ↗

— Leighton Meester

#away #being #even #fine #human