#ox

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#half #intelligent #know #men #mr

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#effective #execution #i #know #laws

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#communal #does #else #get #gloves

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. ↗

— John Grierson

#heart #lie #oblique #paradox #propaganda

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#composing #i #like #myself

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time. ↗

— Matt Groening

#around #came #considered #controversial #else

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#aspects #beings #complementary #consciousness #describes

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#between #box #common #could #deal