#inking

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. ↗

— Lord Byron

#champagne #drinking #eating #feminine #lobster

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#already #because #finished #frame #joke

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#been #handed #merely #now #over

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#became #i #seriously #singing #started

The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk. ↗

— Luis Buñuel

#music

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33) ↗

— Nicholas G. Carr

#thinking #internet

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#illusion #mindfulness #reality #thinking #thoughts

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb... ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#india #roads #thinking #travel #traveling

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution