#us

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can. ↗

— Diana Nyad

#back #been #capacity #ever #far

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ↗

— Bill Nye

#about #anything #does #everywhere #human

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#greater #his #knowledge #man #more

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#because #disappointed #gain #him #his

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#being #certain #circumstances #does #events

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#best #curious #daniel #david #directors

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#because #citizens #civilians #coherent #deal

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bleeding #clean #cut #fighting #front

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#country #economically #educated #educational #feel