#roof

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold. ↗

— John Sutter

#first #found #gold #i #immediately

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#had #i #look #much #proof

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#because #dream #food #happen #hard

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven. ↗

— Jean Chretien

#good #kind #proof #proven #you

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#back #coming #definitive #ever #extraterrestrial

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#housed #magazine #many #opinions #philosophies

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done. ↗

— Jaime King

#athletic #base #because #been #bulletproof

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#belief #proof #reservation #trust #without