#mos

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #books #day #most #overnight

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#identity #lesbian #life #religion #romance

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. ↗

— Julia Child

#feel #few #follow #french #i

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conservative #just #man #mostly #sits

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger. ↗

— Chuck Todd

#any #astronomical #bigger #bubble #get

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #age

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#engineer #engines #father #guess #i

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#confess #girlfriend #great #guys #help

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#few #masters #most #novices #picture

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests