#sticks

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#bow #camp #experience #fire #friction

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it. ↗

— William Shatner

#because #does #environment #front #his

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs. ↗

— Michael Baden

#around #arsenic #because #common #death

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#just #sticks #three #uneducated

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humor #food

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#foot #life #out #sticks #trip

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family. ↗

— Tim Hardaway

#grew #hands #i #me #put

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#base #chaotic #code #developers #many

Some men eat dinner with silverware. Some use chopsticks. I prefer zippers.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #oral-sex #preference