#tan

You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure. ↗

— Gina Ranalli

#humor #humour #misadventure #titanic #death

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. ↗

— Keith Haring

#extent #fight #gravity #i #i think

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life. The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss. ↗

— Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#child #first-kiss #standing-still #time #death

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#been #could #explain #hard #high

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#makes #man #stand #straight #success

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

#city #go #i #kids #manhattan

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#alfred #been #benefits #concerned #ever

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human