#lend

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#adds #am #being #believer #big

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#practice #put #splendid #theory #until

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. ↗

— Liz Phair

#american #bacon #blend #breakfast #drink

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety. ↗

— John Pistole

#between #blend #disagree #i #particularly

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. ↗

— John Podesta

#best #blended #center #clinton #fact

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#bright #earth #east #edge #effect