#taking

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#form #giving #life #like #me

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave

Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it. ↗

— Connie Britton

#better #changed #coffee #diner #early

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#before #haven #in the past #off #past

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#agreed #agreement #germany #greater #potsdam

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#enjoyed #good #guess #i #lessons

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#genius #infinite #infinite capacity #pains #taking

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#another #calling #cannot #employment #how

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously. ↗

— James Carville

#ever #himself #james #seriously #taking

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#everything #granted #i #invented #life