#mate

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#me #mystery #ultimate

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#aches #any #because #bitter #enough

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after. ↗

— George Thorogood

#going #had #i #knew #material

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#arm #bubbling #came #day #down

All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#chance #enjoy #great #had #haven

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#be careful #careful #could #end #everywhere

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#health #i #i do #millions #strangers

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

#answer #approximate #better #exact #far

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

#approximate #deal #exact #good #good deal