#urns

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#always #beginning #moment #particular #path

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. ↗

— Beth Orton

#expression #first #hearing #i #idea

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#good #good lord #heat #into #iron

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#gold #head #hit #into #midget

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#genetic #just #kids #out #overweight

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. ↗

— Jack Paar

#because #gave #god #i #me

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#every #me #moment #surprises #turns

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#round #thinks #turns #world