#inking

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!' ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#big deal #coffee #come #day #deal

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#actually #before #getting #getting old #haven

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#mine #mostly #obsession #thinking #zero-sum

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#am #another #become #doctor #even

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#cos #ever #i #i can #just

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

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#drinking #other #prevent #reasons #thirsty

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#after #been #direction #like #little

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#been #forgetting #lot #make #mistake

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever