#oven

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. ↗

— April Winchell

#children #christmas #dead #everything #fit

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

#come #drunk #glorious #i #manly

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#countries #damage #great #harming #history

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#china #economy #exaggerated #experience #important

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#challenging #companies #company #internet #market

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#directly #fragile #humanity #infinitely #inherited

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ↗

— Al Gore

#economic #economic growth #educational #environmental #environmental protection

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. ↗

— Al Gore

#continue #destruction #deter #impossible #iraq

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#brilliant #conclude #evidence #history #lot