#swell

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#boswell #chronicler #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #sidekicks

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#body #goes #heals #i #pain

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. ↗

— E. L. Konigsburg

#allow #already #also #around #begin

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#give #growing #him #i #man

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. ↗

— John H. Speke

#death #delight #family #hailed #instances

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

#benefit #break #broken #came #career

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell. ↗

— Nathanael West

#boswell #dreams

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#humor #swelling #humor

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#done #ever #i #life #meaningful

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction