#ground

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#appears #backgrounds #black #designed #destiny

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#background #began #gently #life #me

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comes #fly #ground #here #i

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#business #got #i #into #law

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air. ↗

— Audie Murphy

#air #before #begun #congo #ever

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and we didn’t now. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#grounded #life #love #life

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go. ↗

— Estella Warren

#background #because #carries #discipline #gives

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#clinical #diagnosis #disease #experience #heredity

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#feet #ground #i #just #shoes

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money