#pro

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

#century #changes #chiefly #close #connection

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ↗

— Rick Moody

#composition #good #good prose #into #make

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. ↗

— Rick Moody

#control #example #gets #going #good

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. ↗

— Rick Moody

#concealing #itself #process #revealing #writing

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#against #allows #also #because #certain

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. ↗

— Demi Moore

#having #hold #i #idea #just

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#movements #prosper #religious #tribulation #true

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#dead #like #love #money #much