#is

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#aware #even #ever #i #i write

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#bigger #envisaged #future #i #much

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. ↗

— Vernon Lee

#greatest #greatest pleasure #pleasure #re-reading #reading

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#education #example #good #good example #important

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#i #listen #melody #out #radio

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#best #either #essentially #failed #god

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode. ↗

— John Leeson

#been #dad #enough #episode #i

Kiss someone like kissing is the only way you have to communicate. There is no conversation. There is no sex. There are only two sets of lips that are ravenous to be recognized and treasured. ↗

— Roberto Hogue

#how-to-kiss #kiss #kissing #lips #sex

I like to schedule dentist appointments for March 32, otherwise known as April Fool’s Day. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dentist #funny #humor #funny