#toms

Need a ride home?" "Yes." But she keeps sitting there. "Let's go." "You're taking me?" "It's a pretty standard way of offering," I say. "I wasn't asking for informational purposes. Fascinating as the answer was. ↗

— Ingrid Paulson

#home

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#already #eyes #giving #gracefully #having

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#definite #edited #ever #eyes #institutions

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. ↗

— George Canning

#asking #bottoms #cent #clap #commerce

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. ↗

— Allan Carr

#bottoms #excited #go #go home #heroes

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #any #arrange #atoms #awful

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. ↗

— John Michael Hayes

#change #get #house #look #oughta

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#baseball #becoming #early #i #lying

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#any #customs #form #intensive #jews

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#circumstances #compute #figure #how #information