#uses

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#evening #expectation #go #houses #know

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ↗

— Amy Tan

#comes #desperation #inspiration #kindness #knows

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#directions #driver #new #person #refuses

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#available #becomes #history #material #method

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ↗

— Benny Green

#instead #jazz #jazz musician #juggler #musician

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#also #built #holy #house #houses