#ling

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. ↗

— Alveda King

#again #already #american #american people #around

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? ↗

— Larry King

#arthur #broadcaster #crazy #everyone #godfrey

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#doing #evil #knowing #willingly #worse

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#chemicals #feelings #like #more #smell

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#cash #characters #could #different #different kinds

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#combination #deals #even #exciting #great

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#admitted #career #change #consequences #definite

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#answer #ask #because #country #direct

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#answer #care #controlling #costs #health

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#food #foodie #language #linguistics #names