#ward

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ↗

— Peter Agre

#career #cold #diseases #exotic #far

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#bookshelf #feeling #gone #i #i think

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#artistic #experience #goal #i #loved

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#biggest #forward #i #i can #keep

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#bit #forward #go #ironing #like

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal. ↗

— Tom Araya

#biggest #fact #i #i think #just

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basis #become #being #book #comes

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially