#bj

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#answer #asked #badly #been #change

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#change #consequently #continual #created #each

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#deep #fans #just #needy #nerds

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#faults #feel #grow #instrument #judge

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#anything #art #better #carries #carry

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #deal #exist #i #i do

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#interested #interview #know #subject #them

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#connected #day #expected #i #kind

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#am #any #backed #damn #disillusioned