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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity. ↗


— Bob Woodward


#anonymity #before #behind #hid #officials

I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a medium which is affected as much by humidity, gravity, the way that heavier particles in the wash settle into the undulations of the paper surface, as by whatever I wish to do with it. In other mediums you have more control, you are responsible for every mark on the page — but with watercolor you are in a dialogue with the paint, it responds to you and you respond to it in turn. Printmaking is also like this, it has an unpredictable element. This encourages an intuitive response, a spontaneity which allows magic to happen on the page. When I begin an illustration, I usually work up from small sketches — which indicate in a simple way something of the atmosphere or dynamics of an illustration; then I do drawings on a larger scale supported by studies from models — usually friends — if figures play a large part in the picture. When I've reached a stage where the drawing looks good enough I'll transfer it to watercolor paper, but I like to leave as much unresolved as possible before starting to put on washes. This allows for an interaction with the medium itself, a dialogue between me and the paint. Otherwise it is too much like painting by number, or a one-sided conversation. ↗


— Alan Lee


#illustrating #inspiration #watercolor #inspirational

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. ↗


— Joe Baca


#assets #costly #esteem #harbor #lives

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#life

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. ↗


— Gilbert Newton Lewis


#base #concentration #define #definition #frequently

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. ↗


— G. Gordon Liddy


#flat #official #pamphlet #society #version

Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use. ↗


— James Lind


#boil #boiling #bottle #cold #come

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. ↗


— Bjorn Lomborg


#aids #carbon #clean #clean water #cuts

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions. ↗


— Bjorn Lomborg


#best #best way #carbon #cut #emissions

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. ↗


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#chance #depths #drops #emotion #full






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