#ding

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#reading #television #business

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#burden #control #create #economic #economic growth

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Allen

#iraq #spending #week

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#china #committee #finding #labs #research

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#always #biographies #i #innate #interest

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#anyone #being #exceedingly #i #never

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did