#tho

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! ↗

— Vinnie Vincent

#am #anytime #i #i am #old

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#much #nothing #silence #strengthens

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#approves #brave #business #conduct #conscience

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#been #die #how #i #learning

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#appealing #argument #authority #conducts #his

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. ↗

— Tim Vine

#cabinet #chairs #dentist #down #filing

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. ↗

— Tim Vine

#candles #couple #know #now #out

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. ↗

— Tim Vine

#ask #childhood #comics #conscious #conscious effort

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#day #drew #frequently #historical #i

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more