#leave

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned. ↗

— George Woodcock

#consisted #could #council #decided #decision

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really. ↗

— Fay Wray

#because #fair #fun #going #good

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore. ↗

— William P. Young

#being #creation #explore #go #god

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#because #being #had #headache #late-night

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#brain #clearer #come #end #even

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#expect #go #good #hungry #i

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ↗

— Brian Eno

#becomes #ceases #condition #disappearing #enters

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?' ↗

— LeBron James

#am #around #deeper #did #father

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conscience #i #i think #inferior #leave

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#does #dragon #him #leave #live