#elle

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. ↗

— John Cusack

#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#change #faced #few #forces #intellectually

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#amazing #father #felt #footnote #his

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. ↗

— Voltaire

#dregs #excellent #froth #middle #top

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ↗

— Evan Esar

#excellent #habits #human #human beings #place

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#intellects #superior #things #truth

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. ↗