#lain

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#complaining #constantly #could #disappointed #fall

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#dislike #else #explain #how #i

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ↗

— Robert Collier

#bring #center #clear #into #mass

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#explained #lord #lord of the rings #rings

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. ↗

— Robert A. Cook

#brains #complain #help #positive #say

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chambers #deposited #detectors #different #distinguish

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#captain #else #fights #had #i

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#explain #five #i #live #minutes