#polis

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#black #character #goth #ipod #just

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#against #brain #good #others #our

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. ↗

— Bill Murray

#american #american way #i #i think #out

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#i #i see #no reason #polishing #reason

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

#atlanta #bucks #buy #by the time #dollars

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#conservative #decision #down #end #enough

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#music #polish #sin #song #sweet

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish