#reserved

It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you. It went with the noiselessness of late night, and only the crickets chirping, the frogs sobbing off in the moist swampland. One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#drifting #jar #jars #noiselessness #pale

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.' ↗

— Michael Bay

#also #business #deeper #general #got

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#american people #fun #good #good time #how

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#future #noble #noble deeds #passed #power

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. ↗

— James Thurber

#cost #earliest #greatest #i #like

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#completely #dork #good #i #i do

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#everybody #life #only #preserved #privileged

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#i #like #me #often #old