#wil

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. ↗

— Jim Varney

#i #i write #lease #like #music

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. ↗

— James Harrington

#being #brought #contemplation #forth #his

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ↗

— Moss Hart

#audience #clock #far #generally #hearing

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. ↗

— Will Harvey

#chance #go #out #something #ten

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be. ↗

— Sai Baba

#been #everything #new #nothing #old

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#any #based #beautiful #been #compelling

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#could #develop #ease #even #extent

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#create #hope #investment #leave #like