#sever

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

#day #deep #degrees #doors #fourteen

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things. ↗

— Jack White

#beautiful #beautiful word #could #different #different things

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. ↗

— Kit Williams

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#compelled #employ #had #like #many

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#base #because #been #bush #bush presidency

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#believe #contemplated #game #game music #i

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #diseases #factors #focusing #health

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#borders #compassion #continue #darkest #even

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea. ↗

— John Zorn

#calls #choice #go #got #gotta