#lan

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. ↗

— George Stephenson

#be happy #carrying #execution #express #favourable

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. ↗

— Steve Earle

#bob #boots #coffee #coffee table #cowboy

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#body #body language #disposal #get #how

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#contemplation #harvest #plant #reap #shall

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#adult life #always #cleveland #grew #i

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#words #life

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#better #coordination #development #effective #efforts

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#england #feeble #heart #i #king