#ode

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. ↗

— John Ruskin

#english #get #incense #lightning #might

Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #moderation #funny

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#commonest #endured #greater #livelihood #marriage

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#family #father #golf #modern #particularly

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#best #living #modern #thing

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#business #dad #degree #died #each

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#each #episode #feel #great #i

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#basis #cast #disappointing #episode #going

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#cheaper #costs #economics #episodes #individually