#erie

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ↗

— Marie Curie

#discoveries #draw #evil #good #humanity

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. ↗

— Clive Cussler

#around #be different #different #doing #dreamed

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. ↗

— Mary Daly

#many #religious #religious experience #substitute #work

You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#could #die #know #lot #people

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. ↗

— Evan Dando

#decent #down #everything #experiences #find

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#experience #government #government spending #just #much

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#air #been #bit #child #cynically

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. ↗

— John Fletcher

#certain #experience #far #farther #find

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. ↗

— Stephen King

#ghosts #i #i love #love #mysteries

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father