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“A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.”

Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.”

Moments Running Fields Truth Is Computer Program Prophecy Moment Of Truth

Author:Herbert Simon

“I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.”

Fire Fields Cold Romantic Edges Ice Burning

Author:Meat Loaf

“We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields”

Next Cry Fields Mercy Amusement Mortgage

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

“When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.”

Form Team Fields Messages Plant Opponents Flags Defeated Visiting Spears Taunting Turf

Author:Brad Davis

“The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.”

Water White Cities Rich Tree Fields Wall Bears Promise Wine Shining Wide Hills Breasts Corn Vines White Walls

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“A truly international field, no Britons involved.”

Inspirational Funny Fields Involved International Entertaining Athletics Bloopers Britons

Author:David Coleman

“Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.”

Thinking Simple Fields Investing Myth Deceit Logical Fraud Application Superstitions Logical Thinking

Author:Arthur Jones

“I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.”

Feels Looks Stills I Can Enough Moving Song Black Can Do White Alive Fields Pages Structure Soldier Agendas Black And White Avant Garde

Author:Scott Walker

“Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.”

Men Political Politics Fields Safe Property Kitchen Session Legislature

Author:Daniel Webster

“Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.”

Trying Persons Doe Sometimes Helping Political Language Silence Fields Color Great Work Political Correctness Correctness Playing Fields Disservice

Author:Margaret Cho

“The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.”

Simple Vision Car Fields Bike

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!”

Want Giving Cutting Fields Paper Depth Glasses Dynamism Depth Of Field Paper Cuts

Author:Brendan Fraser

“Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.”

Shows Fields Huge Daily Show

Author:Ed Helms

“Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.”

People Ifs Way I Can Talking Issues Fields Various Interviews

Author:Katie Couric

“You're curious about someone, or why they're doing what they're doing. Because everyone who gets to work in this field is so lucky, and it's such a rarified world, I understand that. At the end of the day, I'm interested in demystifying it.”

World Ends Fields Lucky Curious The End Of The Day So Lucky

Author:Joan Cusack

“Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.”

Should Sometimes Taken Feet Fields Music Is Males

Author:Missy Elliot

“What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.”

Fields Bird Percent Paradise Collections Museums Spectacular Passengers Drawers Pigeons

Author:Andrew Bird

“It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.”

Wonder Fields Rap Gifted Hobbies

Author:Donald Glover

“To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand”

“Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.”

“As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted, something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life, and I've tried to do that where I can in my field.”

Wells I Can Important Kids Given Fields Fame Important Things Things To Do Impressed

Author:Adria Petty

“When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Different Remember Saws Fields Mountain Ocean First Time Wheat Wheat Fields

Author:Dennis Hopper

“There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.”

Feels War Fields Paid Phones Prisoner Technological Frontiers Texting Prisoner Of War

Author:Padgett Powell

“I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.”

People Way Kind Bits Acting Fields Particular Findings Died I Realized Unhealthy Claws

Author:Andrew Garfield

“There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?”

“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!”

“My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.”

Knows Feelings Running Today Fields Grew Periods Europe Posts Usa Guts Trends Gut Feelings Modernization

Author:Charles Stross

“One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.”

Giving Looks Long Enough Able Stars Understanding Tree Rocks Fields Poet Bird Guides Tiny Butterfly Mammals Best Gift Wildflowers Reptiles Amphibians

Author:Marge Piercy

“Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.”

Feels Looks Persons Sometimes Moments Common Our Lives Fields Changed Depends Window Breaths Clue Brief Moments

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.”

Want Long Play Wanted Artist Sound Imagination Pleasure Seeing Fields Color Discipline Long Time Presses Available Deeper Strongest Invites Strangeness Palette Helium

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”

“Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.”

Thinking Jobs Stuff Difficult Fields Industry Tough Capacity Exciting Officers Versus Spy Cia Glamorous

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.”

“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”

Inspirational Art Literature Interest Design Fields Expression Photography Theater Dance Ballet

Author:Lester Beall

“Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.”

Heart Hands Brain Fields Economics Deeper Intellect Occupation Engineering Flocks

Author:Dick Armey

“If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.”

Ifs Done Given Impossible Fields Experts Elderly

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”

Freedom Sky Fields Ought Blue Green Paint Video Supporter

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.”

Believe Spiritual Law Political Social Economic Fields Activity Ordinary Contrary

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.”

Persons Important Evil Attitude Fields Errors Definitions Tolerance Punishment Application Intolerance Forbearance Erring

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.”

“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”

People World Want Wells Done Hands Moving Common Fire Fields Shapes Tasks Clean Rhythm Dust Bags Evident Harvest Mud Well Done Parlor

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.”

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

“The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.”

Men Greater Effects Stupid Fields Elements Intelligent Surprise Stupidity Intelligent Man Diffusion Stupid Men Element Of Surprise

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.”

“What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.”

Trying Firsts Jobs Fields Lessons Protection Heartbreaking

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.”

Ifs Way Should Believe Matter I Believe Process Results Military Fields Structure Handle

Author:Ralph Abraham

“Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'”

Knows Needs Home Remember Strong President Support Security Military Fields Duty Needed Battle Defense National Security Commanders Insert National Defense

Author:Ryan Zinke

“If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.”

Ifs Want Middle Fields Milk Cows Up To You Stools

Book:Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

Source: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

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