In the Solar System, Enceladus ought to be one of the highest priorities for the world's space agencies. Enceladus has a source of energy (tidal heating), organic material, and liquid water. That's a textbook-like list of those properties needed for ...
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right momen...
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day...
Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the gro...
One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here-...
Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- ti...
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that...
Anger is a short madness.
how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Life is to short, enjoy every moment that comes, the high's and the low's. They make you who you are !
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
