#han

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#french #great #modern #modern poetry #more

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #bad #brain #call #day

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#been #cannot #certainly #changes #concur

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #darwinian #difficult #evolution #imagine

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view. ↗

— Dick Morris

#changes #communication #district #getting #guy

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#census #higher #highest #highest level #january

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentlemen before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #northanger-abbey #romance #dreams

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. ↗

— Richard Morris

#director #door #education #first #hire

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#cannot #cap #council #effect #general

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#even #fear #friend #guess #hurts