#stand

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#drink #drive #i #know #like

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#art #attempt #beyond #built #city

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#really #rock #rock music #someone #talking

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#grow up #how #island #matters #sea

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#close #close relationship #deal #does #else

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? ↗

— Brian Greene

#brains #cats #certainly #deepest #further

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#business #come #face #global #global warming

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding. 1620 - Francis Bacon ↗

— Carl Sagan

#novum-organon #understanding #experience

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#arm #available #back #camps #cast

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#desecration #flag #free #free speech #fundamental