#liz

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#embarrassing #find #i #meeting #only

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#allow #art #been #dream #health

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#came #cases #commission #conclusions #did

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#also #civilization #cooperation #implicit #make

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#die #murder #suicide

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all. ↗

— John Corry

#burger #burger king #equalize #ethnic #glories

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. ↗

— Jack Vance

#call #done #far #got #i

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#away #because #book #browns #bunch

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#civilization #classical #common #discussion #freedom

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide. ↗

— Charles King

#committing #gift #girl #her #i