#oar

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#board #easy #god #gods #imagine

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#average #board #charles #dart #day

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors. ↗

— Merton Miller

#board #dimensional #directors #fund #i

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#connected #electricity #god #light #said

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

#confined #confusion #darkness #disorder #fled

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#how #looks #matters #merely #oar

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#board #buy #get #hybrid #i