#extract

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#comes #consider #different #extract #history

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #been #extracted #husband #left

Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#even #example #extract #flavor #for example

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#allowed #could #extract #feelings #food

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. ↗

— David Suzuki

#becoming #continued #conventional #depleted #difficult

He never raised a hand to us. He always said that inflicting pain, even as a last resort, was a sign that intelligence had been exhausted. He said smacking just passed on violence as an inheritance. But he was not soft with his words; when he called you to order, it pulled you up sharp. It wasn’t just a case of not teaching children to hit out. He believed the far more important lesson for the child was to realise that there are always words. However bad a child’s behaviour, there were always more words; the time to stop talking was never a point he would reach. ↗

— Christian Cook

#intelligence

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#continually #extract #hardest #ill #inexhaustible

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#actually #applications #extract #feel #going