#under

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#factory #get #grandmother #green #had

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#during #enough #give #i #myself

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#music #paradox #understanding #age

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoyevsky #notes-from-the-underground #slave #age

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger. ↗

— Raymond Khoury

#god #thunderstrorm #tune #anger

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cooperation #freedom #harmony #love #peace

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#any #first #fork #i #into

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #computer #life #look #mess

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#silhouette #understand