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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?


Julian Barnes


#history #mellow #memory #merit #nostalgia

Around this world will I be enough? From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues I am nothing if I'm not with you.


Sara Quin


#drama-blues #filthy-room #liquor-stores #not-with-you #nothing

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.


Ernst Zundel


#cannot #discharge #down #down the road #find

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.


Richard Fortey


#natural-history #change

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.


Henry Fox


#hall #heels #his #law #old

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.


Edith Wharton


#art #been #before #common #doing

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth – and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.


Steve Jobs


#macintosh #microsoft #business

Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think "Oh! Where did MY happiness go?" because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy... or, you know, something like that.


C. JoyBell C.


#how-to-be-unhappy #inspirational-quotes #unhappiness #wisdom-quotes #business

But despite the maturity of the basic F4U design, the risks involved in flight-testing design changes remained. On 8 July 1946 test pilot Dick Burroughs was killed while attempting to land at the Tweed New Haven Airport following an engine failure in the XF4U-5. Later that year, project pilot Bill Horan survived a risky bail out of an F4U-5 following an engine failure during a high altitude dive test over Long Island Sound.


Ralph Harvey


#change

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.


Dorothy Malone


#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i






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