#mean

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#bad #bad one #become #get #good

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#allegorical #apparently #been #expression #hold

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. ↗

— Al Franken

#back #doing #focused #getting #home

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means. ↗

— Philippe Sollers

#means #other #politics #writing

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#because #comedy #directors #i #i do

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#anonymity #appreciative #come #course #i

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#capable #down #find #i #kind

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#could #electrical #energy #made #means