#ground

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chamber #common #common sense #first-rate #floor

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#craft #disciplined #given #good #grounding

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#everything #family #few #got #happy

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#break #continues #envelope #ground #i

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#experiences #exposed #groundwork #life #often

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #believe #comes #factors #grounds

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. ↗

— Casey Kasem

#actor #background #because #could #i

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#actually #being #dream #game #going

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#artists #backgrounds #bad #being #cool

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#background #became #by the time #compositional #doing