#airing

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#came #comrades #despairing #farewell #freedom

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia. ↗

— Amar Bose

#anything #business #could #electronic #fix

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. ↗

— James Broughton

#arguing #art #i #never #passion

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#another #consists #despairing #grandeur #hoping

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#depending #different #direction #episodes #few

Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#country #democrats #difficult #doing #economy

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#despairing #hopeful #know #looking #now

Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #pairing #love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything