#nu

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else. ↗

— John Irving

#dumb #else #imagine #know #minutes

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#called #every #fine #get #i

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#born #dad #get #i #i was born

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#believed #biological #building #chemical #enough

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#analyze #comes #continually #does #energy

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#after #been #complaints #cross #detainees

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research. ↗

— Steve Israel

#cell #cell research #cells #eligible #embryonic

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#cash #check #companies #consolidation #continuing