#ems

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#composers #form #found #many #only

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#brazil #enthusiastic #flowers #latins #tenderly

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#after #bars #chat #death #else

I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the country. You can't beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#around #beat #clean #clean air #country

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. ↗

— Barry Diller

#like #more #our #over #proud

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #beings #come #doing #face

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet. ↗

— John Dingell

#close #feet #foot #his #i

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. ↗

— William Blake

#bad #between #copy #deal #difference