#things

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#more #preservation #should #side #things

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. ↗

— William Empson

#off #put #refined #seems #someone

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. ↗

— Drew Endy

#i can #inherit #limited #material #nature

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add. ↗

— John Entwistle

#added #album #always #american #anthology

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned. ↗

— Julius Erving

#depressed #get #go #good #good moments

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#age #basketball #because #difficulty #eight

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. ↗

— Julius Erving

#any #back #consumed #endeavor #experience

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#absolute #act #always #decisions #great

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#encountered #first #first time #great #minor