#raft

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#also #around #coast #cohesion #down

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. ↗

— Jon Postel

#drafting #group #less #productive #valuable

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues. ↗

— Roy Clark

#believe #better #big #big leagues #drafted

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#did #genuine #i #know #raft

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#anybody #brady #could #draft #get

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#handicraft #industry #lifted #major #manufacture

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#because #behind #comedy #craft #frank

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #changes #economic #empires #every

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#lovecraft #age

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#evil #h-p-lovecraft #horror #weird #dreams