#lain

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#explain #ghost #idea #itself #like

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ↗

— Charles Dickens

#being #below #common #common people #complaint

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#complained #despite #differences #embracing #friends

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. ↗

— Rita Dove

#art #complained #could #fail #failed

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#become #deep #elaine #hours #i

No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain. ↗

— Yasmine Bleeth

#dream #ever #happy #hear #hollywood

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that. ↗

— Hans Blix

#barrel #bottom #could #deliver #down

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#academic #also #america #consider #debt

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better? ↗

— Tony Dungy

#better #complain #feel #gonna #how