#ear

He got up and there were both of us in our underwear and this kid goes through the whole thing again, all the closets, the bathroom, everything else and then he left. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#bathroom #both #closets #else #everything

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. ↗

— Ben Stein

#being #condemned #eu #glee #israel

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dr #father #go #grown #how

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear. ↗

— Ben Stein

#believe #book #called #certain #clear

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. ↗

— Ben Stein

#because #been #definitely #even #fear

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#men #pearls #swine

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#conclude #fact #good #in fact #in other words