#dl

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #combined #cradle #filled #hard

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dangerous #deadly #findings #make #our

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance. ↗

— Fred Durst

#fart #i #jokes #just #laugh

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#allowing #barrels #billions #drilling #feet

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#handle #people #reality #who

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#contain #does #drama #feudal #few

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have. ↗

— George Eads

#acting #another #challenge #early #fun

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defend #defendants #job #job security #lawyers

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#american #criticism #foot #government #iranian

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#criticism #enormous #film #film criticism #find