#own

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#been #close #countenance #ears #expressive

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#because #bigger #challenge #got #harder

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ↗

— George MacDonald

#down #man #today #tomorrow #weigh

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring. ↗

— James MacArthur

#because #boring #down #droves #get

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#clock #followed #home #hour #marched

I can't give up my own identity. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #identity #my own #own #up

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#also #assistance #course #development #itself

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#boots #brown #committed #conjecture #dreams

Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'. ↗

— Leonard Little

#down #guy #me #meet #name