#now

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#dying #first #gladly #house #i

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#eternally #grateful #grew #i #james

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#because #become #circumstances #dream #few

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#did #doing #early #ever #i

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heroic #knights #ups-and-downs #men

Doctors didn't know what to do with me. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#know #me

I had a dad you know. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#had #i #know #you

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. ↗

— James D. Watson

#become #complicated #dealing #i #i think