#ape

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. ↗

— Paul Simon

#capture #dime #exaggerating #i #just

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#against #educated #give #himself #his

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#already #child #coming #escape #had

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#burden #businesses #comprehensive #congress #federal

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#did #first #floods #help #i

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#also #divinity #ends #only #shapes

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#drapes #house #i #like #lot

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

#collections #disguised #most #novels #often

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#need #novelist #paper #pen #piece