#lis

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you. ↗

— Ken Follet

#asking #established #lie #man #no point

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. ↗

— May Sinclair

#i #journalist #more #nurse #than

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#fascism #murder #plus

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#came #few #found #i #intellectualism

Can't you ever stop joking?" "No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is? ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#vicky-bliss #life

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#listening #music #personal #reading #silence

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#better #carpenter #different #different personalities #draw

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

#background #call #halt #handling #i

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#amazingly #amend #anglican #been #church

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#collapse #communist #communist party #crisis #dramatic