#i

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out. ↗

— Peter Weiss

#clogged #dead #even #generation #ideas

We know they've got food here," Loran said ever practical. "What more do we need?" "Well, as much as I heartily approve of food," Jason replied, glancing over at Loran. "I wouldn't say no to the odd cellium mine or cache of alien tech." "You're picking up some alien tech?" Tennant asked excitedly, practically bouncing at the prospect. "Are there any weapons?" "No, of course not," Jason snapped in exasperation. "I'm not picking up anything. But, ahh... I'll be sure to keep running that particular scan - the alien weapon scan," he added hurriedly in appeasement as Tennant's face dropped. ↗

— Claire Russett

#scifi #food

Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wide variety of foods to growing what the Egyptian state demanded. Their bones show lots of deficiencies in minerals and iron." The same stunting happened repeatedly throughout history. As late as the 1800s, male Cheyenne Indians, who hunted bison and collected berries, averaged a whopping 5'10", towering above even today's Americans, not to mention General Custer's cavalry, which averaged 5'7", and the period's wealthy European monarchies. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #history #hunter-gatherer #food

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… ↗

— 2 Peter 2 18

#food-for-thought #ible #peter #speaking #think-before-you-speak

...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat... ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #food

I never consider myself to be a carnivore... I think souls qualify more like vegan or something. ↗

— Aria Adams

#eating #food #soul #food

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#different #different things #first #got #had

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#among #athletic #been #believed #competition

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it? ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#back #blogs #everyone #i #i do

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#advised #agent #american #change #i