#genera

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#general #i #past #suppose

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#fact #first #generalities #great #in fact

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#general #more #objects #processes #range

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #beautiful #defined #degenerate #domain

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#everywhere #generation #go #i #jazz

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#big #cinema #deep #deep space #definitely

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#consideration #development #faced #field #first

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#certain #circumstances #cripple #decline #earlier