#lands

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. ↗

— Roald Amundsen

#always #first #gratitude #ice #increased

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#amazed #beard #controversy #day #editorial

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#between #comb #falklands #fight #men

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. ↗

— Otto Schily

#attacks #committed #community #filmmaker #gogh

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#budget #code #favorite #haven #his

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#above #advice #always #am #beautiful

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. ↗

— Richard Serra

#formal #i #immerse #landscape #many

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements. ↗

— John Sexton

#consciously #elements #experience #forest #found

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#become #lake #landscape #mountains #real

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating