#erie

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#against #amusement #business #cases #companies

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#father #good #good father #i #i think

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#anyone #care #close #else #even

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#anyway #atlanta #cast #dinner #experience

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. ↗

— William M. Daley

#complicated #experienced #follow #home #i

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. ↗

— George Osborne

#chancellor #closest #closest thing #ever #experience

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#difficult #experiences #gather #get #gets

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#experienced #only #others #ourselves #pity

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#because #black #bullying #did #experienced