#ape

You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#president #rape #title #funny

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#his #marks #material #pain #power

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. ↗

— Jim Walton

#any #caution #cnn #decisions #editorial

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#am #among #children #future #help

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it. ↗

— Travis Tritt

#i #know #looking #people #put

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#completely #i #money #refugee #studying

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#chose #comfortable #counsel #get #i

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bad #clinging #family #like #love