#heir

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#entire #entire life #harder #humor #i

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#clever #geniuses #i #i do #i think

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#always #business #class #come #getting

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #fulfill #parents

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#been #commonly #concern #done #feel

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#daily #daily lives #dependent #incapable #little

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#each #even #explains #fear #flames

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that. ↗

— John Terry

#captain #choice #england #envisage #first