#idly

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#books #dark #ever #finally #first

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher. ↗

— John Shadegg

#consumption #demand #driven #economies #even

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#anyone #bit #candy #category #eye

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#different #different people #ever #first #i

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #big #changing #creatively #environment

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy. ↗

— Craig Stevens

#continue #develop #economies #emissions #energy

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#applies #before #between #change #does

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#becoming #chemical #complicated #football #formula