#above

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. ↗

— Black Elk

#after #dance #did #ground #horse

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#bowie #class #course #cousins #david

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#actual #astronauts #before #beyond #clouds

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #best #ends #great #lives

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#daily #destiny #easily #imagination #level

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#always #below #beside #never #you