#nearly

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#being #did #ended #environment #few

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#art world #been #coherent #kind #minute

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#america #beacon #better #better life #children

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns. ↗

— Moe Howard

#violent #westerns

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#best #edges #find #i #i think

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#country #educated #impossible #independent #mind

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#exaggeration #falsehood #nearly #relation