#incidents

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. ↗

— James Herriot

#bore #funny #i #incidents #lunch

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question