#top

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub. ↗

— Mary Austin

#came #camp #dry #dusk #end

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#end #every #know #look #note

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#always #before #day #had #made

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#bringing #contempt #country #democratic #fundamentalists

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist. ↗

— Chris Brown

#because #compare #ever #gonna #hate

Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too! ↗

— James Belushi

#almost #because #congress #every #going

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#dint #direction #done #give #made

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. ↗

— Edward Bond

#going #i #i write #mad #make

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. ↗

— George Phillips Bond

#astronomy #been #bodies #celestial #century

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. ↗

— David Chalmers

#been #begin #century #consciousness #experimental