#ling

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead. ↗

— Julian Castro

#already #because #connect #far #fictions

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#afar #always #being #church #coming

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#awesome #facebook #grilling #i #integration

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#fiction #needs #perception #pressure #secret

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#clock #creatively #get #having #i

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#down #i #kids #like #married

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#because #caliber #called #chance #confidence

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#our #own #plane #private #take

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making