#heir

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities. ↗

— Ben Stein

#endeavor #field #find #interests #matches

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bad news #ban #because #build #capital

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#being #does #doing #drunk #father

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#common #common sense #day #everyone #gets

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#make #reason #reply #theirs #why

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#ears #getting #go #halls #i

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. ↗

— George Stigler

#discussions #exchange #fellow #forever #freely

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#become #decided #depression #disappeared #during