#mate

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#being #capacity #exactly #human #human being

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. ↗

— Robert A. M. Stern

#about #any #architect #because #between

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#father #fighting #figured #i #if i could

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. ↗

— Matt Stone

#animated #before #entire #fun #goes

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#because #children #decision #every #i