#p

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#end #europe #grinds #halt #in the end

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' ↗

— Harvey Ball

#catch #catch phrase #day #for the day #help

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#same #songs #way #years

To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself. ↗

— Tana French

#spin #death

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#any #being #bidder #buy #credibility

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#care #fact #going #i #i think

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#going #gwyneth #gwyneth paltrow #her #i

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #country #cross #cross country #england