#red

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe. ↗

— William Lyons

#cause #center #class #consensus #considered

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#considered #done #father #i #never

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#answered #away #been #come #cultures

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#admired #art #come #him #honesty

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion. ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#champion #i #remembered #want

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#better #better place #city #completely #contemplate

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#boots #brown #committed #conjecture #dreams

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#accepted #ago #am #ancient #appeared