#era

As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#attorney #attorney general #because #budget #bunch

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#bat #big #camera #creative #film

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#near #oracle #poet #poetry #true

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#always #am #cane #derby #desperate

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#around #attempt #built #chance #desperately

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#confederation #exist #independent #only #states

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

#freedom #give #holy #insulted #justice

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#been #break #business #company #did

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#answer #comedy #funny #general #going