#ether

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. ↗

— James Madison

#case #cause #decide #declaring #executive

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' ↗

— John Malkovich

#collectively #compelling #evocative #group #how

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

#altogether #appear #bad #bad thing #believed

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#band #big #big band #brother #brothers

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#compete #else #go #gymnastics #i

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#good #joke #religion #test #whether

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#big #clock #could #fit #force

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#come #condition #forth #him #himself

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#championship #chance #come #everything #fall

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. ↗

— Bob Marley

#black #chinese #everyone #happen #i