It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. |
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. |
It's a chance to earn big points for riders looking for the skinny digit, |
It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way. |
Mulligan: Invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more 20-yard grounder. |
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. |
Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron. |
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. |
The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters). |
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. |
The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life. |
The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work. |
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. |
They may not have had any medical treatment. We don't know if they've had any medications. Their hygiene might not be optimal. They may be stressed out, ... We're not physicians and cannot diagnose, we can only treat serious things that come up. |
They should not clean out their kitchens or the medicine cabinet. Very few agencies are interested in recycled clothes from the attic. |