#plain

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#day #hours #now #only #work

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#child #dad #disability #down #exactly

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel? ↗

— Don Bluth

#cannot #claim #enthusiasm #explain #i

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #great #hills #middle #mountains

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#false #great #great truth #opposite #plainly

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#civil #civil rights #complaint #credit #dogged

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#crime #his #lips #open #plain

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. ↗

— Bill Joy

#complaining #complicated #editor #got #hard

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight