#cat

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#covering #i #kept #me #played

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#classrooms #devoted #educational #kids #lag

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.' And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?' In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving. ↗

— John Christopher

#education

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#break #care #cared #concerned #economy

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism. ↗

— Novalis

#learning #novalis #education

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#communicate #communicates #communication #feel #i

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. ↗

— Bette Davis

#even #i #left #locations #miserable

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough. ↗

— Evan Davis

#complicated #degree #economy #enough #export