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By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out. ↗

— Russel Honore

#cash register #counter #families #frustrated #get

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#because #becoming #central #climate #convinced

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#firearms #licensing #pass #people #registration

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. ↗

— John Barrymore

#arms #boxing #discover #find #gloves

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#being #inscribed #lives #open #register

Never accept a drink from a urologist. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#drink #never #urologist

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#cops #crime #each #investigating #learn

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#animosity #appears #me #nursing #registering

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work. ↗

— James Iha

#i #just #kind #like #logistics

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#comparing #descriptions #earth #geologists #geology