#ted

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. ↗

— John Muir

#bowing #branches #cease #ear #enthusiasm

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly. ↗

— John H. Morgan

#arms #come #deliver #fail #government

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#decision #instead #interested #made #more

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exercise #inanimate #matter #war #will

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

#constitute #contributed #corresponding #each #egg

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

#breeding #flies #got #i #nothing

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying. ↗

— William De Morgan

#being #dying #fame #hall #i

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #bad #brain #call #day

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#acting #art #art form #because #born