#is

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#among #been #before #books #care

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #outset #riddles #scientist #should

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#disappoint #world #romantic

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#fear #mothers #terrorists

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. ↗

— William Osler

#much #seeing #value #wisely

Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#disgust #italy #romance #age

Kisses should not leave you satisfied. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#love #love

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#art #art form #entertainment #form #i

The economy is a very sensitive organism. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#economy #organism #sensitive #very