#men

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#because #elements #i #i think #language

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#because #club #conclude #consider #create

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#emotion #every #external #feeling #gesture

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team? ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#excitement #fans #football #good #see

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#could #development #facilities #focused #had

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#chief #difficulty #divine #materialism #men

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ↗

— Rita Dove

#details #explore #hinge #i #intimate

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#champagne #competition #deserve #entitlement #i