#ours

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behaviour #cause #change #experience #fish

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#fun #i #ice #known #me

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely. ↗

— Amy Smart

#i #i think #learn #live #more

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics. ↗

— Red Skelton

#course #exercise #friends #get #golf

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are. ↗

— Grace Slick

#based #bothers #excited #friends #good

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. ↗

— William Slim

#balanced #bolder #cannot #choose #courses

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#agreement #decision #develop #disagreement #discussion

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#casualty #come #compliments #course #embarrassing