#top

But then, the sky! Blue, untainted by a single cloud (the Ancientes had such barbarous tastes given that their poets could have been inspired by such stupid, sloppy, silly-lingering clumps of vapour). I love - and i'm certain that i'm not mistaken if i say we love - skies like this, sterile and flawless! On days like these, the whole world is blown from the same shatterproof, everlasting glass as the glass of the Green Wall and of all our structures. On days like these, you can see to the very blue depths of things, to their unknown surfaces, those marvelous expressions of mathematical equality - which exist in even the most usual and everyday objects. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#equality

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#chest #directions #growing #hair #men

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#arrived #deliberate #go #stop #take

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#effects #get #i #i think #movies

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#compelling #controversial #different #fascinated #i

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#amazed #ask #autograph #i #me

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#come #egos #everyone #go #out

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#am #charity #i #i am #out

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#business #committed #everest #fischer #hall

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses