#verse

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#governed #maintained #manifestly #order #sovereign

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants. ↗

— William Joyce

#basically #big #every #everything #george

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#beyond #changing #choose #else #get

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#camera #creatively #diverse #forefront #friends

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#belly #frenetic #hair #his #i

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that. ↗

— David Kay

#because #been #correct #exercising #fact

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. ↗

— Michael Keaton

#context #exponentially #goes #gone #how

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#i #large #learned #make #mind

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches. ↗

— Felix Klein

#departs #developing #diverse #earlier #into