#om

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#astronomy #attractive #beauty #brilliancy #clear

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#man #more #nothing #often #passes

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#certain #certain degree #cynicism #degree #energizing

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#after #allow #come #else #independent

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#gone #i #i write #important #instantly

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #bottom #bottom line #decisions

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#home #inside #north #oppressed #outside

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#listens #man #says #she #woman

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#bourgeoisie #common #common people #common sense #exists

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#comedian #him #his #laugh #mouth