#vent

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#adapted #antiquated #anyone #efficient #else

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. ↗

— Steve Fossett

#aviation #endeavour #enthusiasts #everywhere #flight

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#date #easily #end #invention #man

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#call #childish #college #courses #eventually

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best! ↗

— Charles James Fox

#event #ever #greatest #happened #how

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. ↗

— Dana Fox

#been #comedy #conventions #days #harder

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead. ↗

— Damon Knight

#inventions #science-fiction #sounds #vibrations #experience

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#against #art #born #breakthroughs #go