To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream –...
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here ...
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to ...
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a genera...
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind...
A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. On...
Lennie Pike: It's buried under a big W. Say, what is a big W? Ding Bell: When we find out, we'll send you a 'Wire'. Benjy Benjamin: Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Dora's Client: [dictating a letter] I want to send a letter to a guy who cheated me. Mr Ze Amaro, Thank you for what you did to me. I trusted you and you cheated me. You even took the keys to my apartment.
Lee: [a knock on the door] Come in. Tania: A gift Mr. Lee. [pause] Tania: If you don't see anything you like [pause] Lee: There was a girl at the feast tonight. Tania: Which girl, sir? Lee: The owner of this dart. Tania: Oh, yes. I know the one. I'll...
Elrond: You ride to war, but not to victory. Sauron's armies march on Minas Tirith, this you know. But in secret he sends another force which will attack from the river. A fleet of Corsairs ships sails from the south. They reach the city in two days.
[first title card] Title Card: In 1539, the Knight Templars of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels ~~~~~ but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token ...
Sean Devine: Jimmy, what did you do? Jimmy Markum: [rubs Sean Devine on the shoulder] Jimmy Markum: Thanks for finding my daughter's killer, Sean. If only you'd been a little faster. Sean Devine: You gonna send Celeste Boyle 500 a month too?
Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job. Agent Brown: If, indeed, the insider has failed, they'll sever the connection as soon as possible. Unless... Agent Jones: ...they're dead. In either case... Agent Smith: ...we have no choice but ...
Margot: Do you send my mother your clippings and your grades from college? Eli: Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day til I started getting good reviews. Margot: Your reviews aren't that good. Eli: But the sales are.
Darth Vader: Yes, Admiral, what is it? Admiral Piett: The Emperor commands you make contact with him. Darth Vader: Move the ship out of the asteroid field so that we can send a clear transmission.
Walt Disney: "No whimsy or sentiment!" says the woman who sends a flying nanny with a talking umbrella to save the children. P.L. Travers: You think Mary Poppins is saving the children, Mr. Disney? [Walt and the other filmmakers are stunned silent] P...
Marv: I've been framed for murder and the cops are in on it. But the real enemy, the son of a bitch who killed the angel lying next to me, he's out there somewhere, out of sight, the big missing piece that'll give me the how and the why and a face an...
Woody: [while everyone else is scared by the long, thin present one of Andy's guests is bringing] All right, all right! If I send out the troops, will you all come down? Rex: [yells] Yes, yes, we promise! Woody: O-KAY! Save your batteries.
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet;...
Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in th...
