#los

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #closely #days #had #him

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#guitar #guitar solos #solos #were

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. ↗

— Josh Billings

#got #lost #men #mourn

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ever #find #happiness #her #hunting

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#baby #closed #eyes #had #i

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#business #loses #making #making money #money

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#angeles #children #clean #clean air #could