#ld

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#always #better #days #great #i

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ask #birds #cherries #children #how

Life is the childhood of our immortality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#immortality #life #our

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#alone #appearing #artist #everybody #him

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#how #imagine #nowadays #stupid #whole

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable. ↗

— David Tudor

#disposable #loudspeakers #made #should

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#barack #barack obama #i #money #more

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#antagonism #being #child #directed #each

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#accused #argument #because #disagrees #free