#cho

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#decided #enter #feelings #getting #holidays

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#difficult #felt #great #i #i can

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#alternative #american #american people #bipartisan #choices

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#ass #does #face #i #i am

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously. ↗

— Colin Firth

#bit #choosing #circumstances #depending #desire

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#better #cultural #evidence #fact #historical

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#began #discard #emerge #enslaved #falsely

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#crush #day #different #different way #every

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#brilliant #every #more #remembered #school