#hi

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#desire #everything #honor #idol #idols

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#ever #good #lasts #long #nothing

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

I don't do things that are illegal. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#illegal #things

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#around #beginning #come #comedy #did

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#character #i #i think #like #people

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #birds #finer #may

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#good-looking #handed #people #strong #teeth