#etc

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beautiful #beautiful art #profession #wretched

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#brooks #comedy #day #fantasy #find

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. ↗

— William Bligh

#anywhere #class #common #degree #lower

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc. ↗

— Hans Blix

#anyone #blown #borders #east #etc

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#awful #bound #breasts #came #had

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. ↗

— Greg Egan

#bit #far-fetched #given #hadn #happened

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#any #birds #bound #description #employing