#la

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. ↗

— Sam Houston

#always #class #extreme #favor #invested

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. ↗

— John Boorman

#attuned #audience #aware #being #clear

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ↗

— Catherine Booth

#destiny #earth #encompass #ends #exalted

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#cast #curtain #falls #fitted #found

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#am #attain #desired #fate #homelessness

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#enough #every #find #just #long

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant. ↗

— John Boozman

#good #guy #guys #i #like

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. ↗

— Robert Bork

#almost #anywhere #constitution #court #i

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#between #comb #falklands #fight #men