#ate

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#better #both #clever #craft #distraction

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Intimates are predestined. ↗

— Henry Adams

#predestined

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. ↗

— Don Adams

#certain #certain degree #dedicated #degree #forgetful

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#benefit #cbs #entire #get #important

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cases #central #considering #i #later

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#constant #create #different #effort #given

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#first #requirement #statesman