#lit

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#after #combine #couple #every #happening

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#aggression #arab #arab countries #between #change

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players. ↗

— Michael Michele

#because #i #i think #opposing #people

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #political

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#capital #center #city #financial #hub

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. ↗

— Hermann Minkowski

#doomed #fade #henceforth #independent #into

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political