#ground

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#ground #keep #learn #people #same

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#before #gone #hypocrisy #lot #more

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#battleground #been #countries #faith #moderates

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

#being #career #country #create #front

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #come #hideous #i #kill

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#conditions #considers #engineer #engineering #foundation

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#because #belief #correct #every #ground

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#back #comfort #comfort food #equivalent #feel

But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#empty #get #go #ground #hardest