#iving

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bombing #carefully #century #dalton #destroyed

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else. ↗

— David Attenborough

#because #could #dead #else #ever

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ↗

— David Attenborough

#excitement #greatest #intellectual #interest #life

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#expresses #life #live #live life #living

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean? ↗

— Scott Baio

#anybody #cars #clean #cleaning #closing

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#always #believed #cautiously #done #forward

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#did #end #failure #hide #i

I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage. ↗

— Todd Barry

#committed #consciously #doing #driving #even

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.' ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #chance #day #discovering #driving

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#act #barrymore #because #being #done