#very

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #chemical #discovery #fact #individual

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too. ↗

— Terri Clark

#does #everyone #family #loves #someone

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent. ↗

— Linda Vester

#correspondent #difficult #family #getting #getting married

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ↗

— Alan Watts

#done #everything #how #just #knowing

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#best #best work #comes #often #out

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#edited #every #every day #experiences #go

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years. ↗

— Paula Cole

#asthma #bad #career #daughter #diagnosed

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#lot #lucky #much #played #tennis