#lit

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#born #had #human #human right #i

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#how #little #me #need #pleasure

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#between #haven #i #i think #people

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#back #been #beyond #bit #challenge

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#allow #comic #dramas #expectations #find

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#comic strips #drawing #funny #i #just

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#i #judge #learned #look #love

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#flat #most #our #political #realized