#fore

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#admired #along #been #before #calls

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#also #binary #choices #coded #depending

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#been #before #details #go #going

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.' ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#boys and girls #different #hot #i #listen

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#appreciate #before #dead #did #people

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there. ↗

— John Byrne

#before #citizen #communicate #concerns #internet

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#attain #before #day #delight #drink

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#community #considered #created #fate #first

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#being #born #constantly #did #people