#amin

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#authority #authorizing #benjamin #benjamin franklin #bush

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#before #comes #compare #happened #nothing

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#close #day #dreaming #dreams #empty

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing. ↗

— George Ryan

#bush #case #closely #doing #examined

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#critical #demanded #different #embarking #examination

Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koagulations viatmin" for its role in blood clotting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#trivia #vitamins #home

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#creative #creative work #examines #hinders #ideas

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#broadway #dark #doing #energy #i

I had a dream about you last night… it was raining and you were fishing for fire to set a sandcastle a flame. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships