#rim

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#along #been #before #between #binoculars

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#crew #crew members #experiments #farther #fine

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#committed #crimes #free #horrific #miles

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#discovery #during #francis #head #i

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental. ↗

— Billie Piper

#coming #ever #experimental #films #great

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. ↗

— Gary Player

#create #failure #our #primarily #success

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ↗

— John Poindexter

#enough #experiments #failure #failures #get

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. ↗

— John Huston

#crime #endeavor #form #human #left-handed

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#commandments #good #primarily #rules #seeking