#hub

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#makes #object #soft #universe

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. ↗

— Star Jones

#because #call #chicken #chubby #i

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases. ↗

— Kesha

#chubby #i #phases #through #total

You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#chubby #else #everyone #fatter #girl

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. ↗

— George Steiner

#bach #day #evening #go #his

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it. ↗

— Kevin James

#always #chubby #gets #i #i do

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#because #connecting #continued #could #efficient

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#capital #center #city #financial #hub

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19 ↗

— Charles Yu

#minor-universe- #science

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#gods #hubris #humanity #cruelty