#kind

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime. ↗

— Stanford Moore

#benefit #concern #dedicating #endeavors #estate

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#comes #i #i think #impersonate #kind

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#history-of-mankind #humanity #knowledge #age

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes. ↗

— Rita Moreno

#any #classes #days #i #i am

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#clubs #football #football clubs #funding #gigantic

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#evolutions #i #innovations #instruments #kind

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#art

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#film #film industry #happy #i #industry

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#doing #good #illusion #keep #kind

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#basically #doing #how #i #kind