#itch

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blindly #book #evidence #fanatics #follow

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook. ↗

— Paula Deen

#being #cook #day #every #every day

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #consciousness #enter #greater #i

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#chelsea #different #different perspective #great #guess

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#country #image #look #me #negative

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#familiar #faster #fork #higher #just

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#courses #days #going #mind #olden

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#car #clean #her #i #joni

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#fact #i #innings #pitched #proud

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. ↗