#lou

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #arose #bed #clear #cloudy

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#grow up #i #kid #live #living

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#becomes #bite #day #following #immediately

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. ↗

— Alex Noble

#between #beyond #care #each #energy

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#ghostly #moon #seas #tossed #upon

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#guitar #gun #guy #harry #i

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time. ↗

— Gary Numan

#airplane #business #buy #charge #colours

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#announced #found #gene #located #loudly

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#endless #foreigners #get #god #infinite

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully