#tan

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#could #curve #differences #events #formed

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#circumstances #contentment #happiness #attitude

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards. ↗

— Rihanna

#i #kill #me #mother #nude

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. ↗

— Terry Riley

#am #because #being #billions #coming

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#grows #handle #i #out #quit

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#bass #dead #depends #differently #going

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#feel #i #i think #important #just

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it. ↗

— Jay Roach

#back #because #cheap #cut #fell