#own

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. ↗

— Steven Chu

#criterion #design #devices #fourth #grade

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. ↗

— Guy Clark

#airport #bags #carrying #down #exercise

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#both #different #grandmothers #had #household

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning. ↗

— Dane Cook

#drown #drowning #everyone #feeling #knows

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #am #attack #come #country

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #brilliant #browns #cannot #colours

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#except #grown #himself #man #over

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#country #cultural #cultural diversity #diversity #every

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago. ↗

— David Knopfler

#could #curve #decades #doing #duck

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bugged #come #consulted #dean #down