#son

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #believe #beyond #done #envelope

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris. ↗

— Xavier Niel

#mentality #no reason #paris #real #reason

It wasn’t like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #nature

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. ↗

— Claire Cook

#life-lesson #life

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#being #certainly #great #his #known

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #american lives #asking #certain #congress

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distorting #form #great #had #i

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler") ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #mother #mothers #son #sons

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#beatles #broken #could #especially #person

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#i #i can #instrument #make #only