#ding

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#al #around #aspects #blending #deal

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. ↗

— Frank Borman

#certainly #clouds #does #expanse #forbidding

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#correspondingly #emission #energy #formed #gamma

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#bond #character #easy #entertaining #films

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#beauty #reading #thinking #writing #you

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have. ↗

— Sonny Landham

#another #building #commonwealth #judicial #judicial system

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#both #common #copy #different #engage

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.' ↗

— Gary Busey

#finding #growth #important #important lesson #inviting