#meter

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#baby #being #brat #cage #carve

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. ↗

— Red Adair

#always #cemetery #chair #friends #going

I have invented the Thermometer style. ↗

— Josef Albers

#invented #style #thermometer

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#engage #going #growing #how #iraq

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#having #indicates #ingenious #instrument #kind

In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#cemetery #congress #earth #expressed #fight

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. ↗

— Charles Durning

#count #friends #heroes #how #i

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#i #incredible #last #legs #lifted

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#dead #ideas #science