#rin

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#animal #away #creatures #discontent #dying

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

You could tell that America was gearing up for war. ↗

— Jack Adams

#could #gearing #tell #up #war

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#boxers #end #i #most #nights

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me! ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#first #generous #i #made #me

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

I don't really drink sodas, but when I have popcorn or pizza I need a little. It's the perfect combination. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#drink #i #little #need #perfect

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#beer #chamberlain #grace #had #i

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings