#pi

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. ↗

— Tom Daley

#both #champion #confidence #consistency #diving

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. ↗

— Tom Daley

#gold #most #obviously #olympic #olympic gold

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#cause #dreams #dust #eyes #his

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#back #became #broken #chin #fight

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#bow #did #everybody #get #god

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #death

What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth. There was no cure for what one had seen or done. ↗

— Hannah Blatchford

#paranormal #romance #vampire #dreams

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character. ↗

— Matt Damon

#beforehand #character #figure #fun #i

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid. ↗

— Doris Day

#girl #glamorous #just #look #stand

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #hand #spirit #where #work