#neat

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#bed #beneath #bread #five #i

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#beneath #land #magnitude #more #orders

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beneath #bird #boughs #feels #flight

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. ↗

— Robert Orben

#every #feet #filled #mouth #neat

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. ↗

— John Irving

#already #been #debut #found #good

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#certain #confusion #democracy #neat #orderly

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #center #connects #father #husband

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#end #episode #i #life #neatly

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#beneath #bite #hook #know #pleasure