#ted

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. ↗

— George Grey

#almost #appear #bathe #directly #ever

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#father #korea #polio #train #troop

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? ↗

— George Grosz

#first #first world #first world war #hated #i

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#classes #college #couple #i #journalism

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#forget #let us #me #much #recent

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#courage #got #had #i #journals

Elected presidents are for countries. ↗

— William Hague

#elected #presidents

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#attitude #concentrating #everything #fair #fastest

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#came #dedicated #father #first #focused

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful