#miss

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#air #bars #beam #being #flip

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger. ↗

— Jay London

#bought #enough #finger #fingers #give

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#alive #being #best #comes #feel

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#always #been #both #cd #communication

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners. ↗

— James MacArthur

#farm #honolulu #i #just #lodge

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ↗

— George MacDonald

#deserves #first #first thing #kindness #second