#real

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#always #any #called #darkness #day

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#always #am #bats #brain #dolphins

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#club #had #i #like #part

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#act #activities #been #best #boy

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. ↗

— James Lovelock

#i #job #know #negative #negative way

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. ↗

— Chuck Yeager

#because #end #experience #flight #had

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#disclosures #eyes #less #life #may