#sow

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#ear #film #generate #know #make

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#remarks #sow

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#fresh #ground #like #new #new word

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#begun #cannot #follow #hope #i

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#reaping #sowing

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

#always #bad #bad weather #calm #farmer

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ↗

— James Allen

#character #destiny #habit #harvest #law