“I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.” YearsHouseCitiesYears AgoMilesGranada Author:Alexei Sayle
“A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.” YearsRunningHoursMorningNew YorkYears AgoMilesBoatBreakfastEnginesPassengersMississippiPhiladelphiaCarriagesBaltimoreDine Author:Oliver Evans
“As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.” YearsPowerfulAttentionTakenYears AgoScientistFocusedEastCoreMilesIceGlobal WarmingTrappedCarbonSheetsElegantMeasurementCarbon DioxideAntarctica Author:John Olver
“I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.” ThinkingYearsTwoLostSimpleYears AgoWeightMilesDietsTwo YearsEggsChickensAppetiteCheeseSkinnyBenchesPeanutsSalmonPeanut ButterTwo Years AgoBlueberriesAvocadosQuinoaFeta Cheese Author:Nick Antosca
“You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsChildrenSaidTwoHomeCareLawMotherDiesHouseEasyTalkingCostHundredYears AgoSightCleanAverageAvailableMedicalMilesBunchChildbirthJerusalemMaking People HappyMedical CareDentalSquires Author:Terry Pratchett
“What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.” YearsMayFormSpaceObjectsGrewYears AgoEssenceWineFruitMilesGrapesDefianceRecollectionMiles Away Book:Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor Source: Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor
“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.” FeelsYearsKindLittlesStillsI CanMightHoursHalfProgressTreeBuildingTenDiseaseNewsYears AgoAll ThingsThirdsAbuseComplainingMilesAll KindsScarFeel BetterBentGood NewsJumpingCravingEightyAlrightCrookedLiverTissuesBetter NowOverdoseJumping OffScar TissueLiver Disease Author:Anthony Kiedis
“I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.” IfsThinkingGivingYearsMadeFeelingsHomeHandsWould BeFatherOpportunityMy OwnDadLimitsDaughterYears AgoWeightSpeedMilesIf I CouldMy DaughterHospitalsPledgeMy Own LifeFathers DayNewbornCrawlingAnything In LifeGood FatherSpeed Limits Author:Barack Obama