#ros

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #shane-collins #ghost

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#broadest #corresponded #dr #except #her

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#clime #describes #frost #greatest #greatest artist

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ↗

— Bob Hope

#give #glow #great #greatest #happiness

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#because #children #cry #going #i

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#did #gotten #had #idea #job

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#politics #life

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. ↗

— John Fowles

#description #nature #beauty