#we

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#bigger #endowed #ferocity #fight #french

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#grain #grain of sand #mountain #out #sand

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#around #before #enough #failures #go

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#books #daily #dreamed #each #experiences

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#bow #camp #experience #fire #friction

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#between #cat #deadly #dog #easier

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#back #buffalo #corner #cover #desire

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#basically #could #down #favorites #find

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#also #crazy #different #era #influences

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#cats #classics #else #first #least