#ran

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#could #development #facilities #focused #had

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. ↗

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

#act #action #comes #depression #enthusiasm

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#also #analyze #asked #constantly #each

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#aware #i #photographer #totally #translate

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#i #live #middle #now #nowhere

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ↗

— William Drummond

#entrance #had #into #learn #leaving

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ↗

— Andre Dubus

#element #how #important #look #narcissism

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ↗

— Alex Haley

#grandparents #little #little children #lives #nobody

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#been #case #films #hollywood #i