#verse

When the nurse leaves, Doctor Rose mouths, “Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all thanks to her observant nature while enslaved on the Cosmos. Who else could tell that Peter’s discomfort is due to him wearing the same pair of underwear for a week straight? Ah, yes, she always knew when day six and seven approached. She watched the crew member with much amusement as he waddled, pulled wedgies, and scratched his bum relentlessly. Not that anyone else cared to know that little nugget of information. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#forsaken-harbor #humor #laura-kreitzer #phantom-universe #science-fiction

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#hope #lestat #rescue #safety #universe

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#amazed #collapse #cuts #deferred #economy

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brightest #darkest #days #do not judge #find

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anyone #else #feign #great #i

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#doing #hate #i #just #little

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#concerns #element #energy #energy needs #environmental

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#absurd #america #because #citizens #class

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #contrasting #culture #diverse #each

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. ↗

— James Merrill

#could #fascinating #fit #hope #i