#mm

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #arose #bed #clear #cloudy

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#been #beyond #business #businesses #case

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Bob Ney

#along #driving #due #gasoline #gasoline prices

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. ↗

— Bob Ney

#coverage #honor #legal #moral #moral obligation

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented. ↗

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#heard #hoping #i #implemented #recommendations

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#becomes #bite #day #following #immediately

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#comfortable #common #director #do your best #ethic

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#beating #billy #bite #comedy #crystal