#lit

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#group #i #i am #little #soccer

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#artists #believe #concerning #either #exchanging

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #change the world #create #energy #good

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#capabilities #our #presentation #work

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#general #laws #particular #probability #true

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#back #engagements #footing #future #getting