#pot

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#behind #extremely #felt #focal #focal point

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#badly #biggest #both #changes #done

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #difficult #early #energy #find

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#destruction #evidence #gun #invading #iraq

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year. ↗

— Harold Ford

#even #excited #i #i think #large

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #attack #communicate #disaster #effectively

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#desert #find #hardly #into #place