#lon

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#admired #along #been #before #calls

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#begin #live #longer #only

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

You aren't going to leave me alone are you? ↗

— Edie Adams

#going #leave #leave me alone #me #you

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#cds #facilities #homes #investment #life-long

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#ads #back #beauty #because #covers

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything. ↗

— Robert Torricelli

#everything #experience #live #long #you

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! ↗

— Charles Anthon

#been #book #dug #enormous #fastened

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#always #control #error #every #everything