#gag

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#behind #believe #bodies #both #i

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. ↗

— William Glasser

#checking #constantly #dialogues #education #encouraging

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. ↗

— David Antin

#audience #aware #believe #business #engage

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#complicated #drawing #gag #more #spend

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comes #composition #design #drawing #equilibrium

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#direction #engaged #found #i #moving

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. ↗

— Julian Assange

#abusers #always #bad #believe #controversy

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#been #better #better off #had #i

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#degree #engage #felt #generally #i

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#best #democracy #electorate #engaged #informed