#marks

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billion #citizens #debt #designate #did

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ↗

— William H. Gass

#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#features #good #good breeding #marks #person

The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#big #bigger #brian #dave #finally

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#arrested #arrested development #degree #development #man

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#defeat #evolution #first #first step #formal

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#border #each #fixed #fought #gangs

These players are prima donnas. They need to educate themselves so they don't make such stupid remarks. ↗

— Richard Williams

#educate #make #need #players #prima

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#individual #marks #practical #self-consciousness #social

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be. ↗

— Woody Allen

#interrogation-marks #irony #writing-advice #writing-tips #humor