#under

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#bury #i #just #nothing #personally

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. ↗

— Henry Moore

#discipline #drawing #fundamental #much #oneself

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#clubs #football #football clubs #funding #gigantic

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#coach #dumb #dumb enough #enough #football

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#blame #contract #few #go #i

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand. ↗

— John McGraw

#cater #demand #every #every man #faults

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#america #economy #how #look #military