#tin

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

#annual #attention #begin #circulating #concentrated

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. ↗

— Rick Moody

#concealing #itself #process #revealing #writing

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it. ↗

— Ron Moody

#artists #believes #belly #fix #getting

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

#allows #any #does #down #human

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#biomedical #fantasy #i #i love #love

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#bother #getting #i #like #pick

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#finishing #i #writing

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#break #emotional #emotionally #fans #find

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going