#is

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#science #food

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#any #conference #form #record #winning

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ↗

— Philip Knight

#few #making #many #mistakes #too

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#abyss #battle #courage #die #entering

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#amount #came #caribbean #doing #enjoy

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. ↗

— Alfred A. Knopf

#incomprehensible #man #obvious #states #terms

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. ↗

— Alfred A. Knopf

#editor #him #his #job #looks

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow. ↗

— David Knopfler

#become #either #extent #how #i