#ode

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#first #first thing #geologists #go #make

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #england #flooded #gates #join

If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#case #framework #good #i #i think

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#constitutional #democratic #egypt #free #lawful

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else. ↗

— John Tenniel

#carry #else #figure #i #models

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ↗

— John Mortimer

#life #milk #modern #shelf #shelf life

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare. ↗

— Kate Moss

#around #because #day #end #ever

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model. ↗

— Kate Moss

#model #quite #say #thought #vain