#mina

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#am #blush #bush #doubling #eliminating

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#concentration #discrimination #entrepreneurial #essential #five

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#category #earned #emmy #had #i

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs. ↗

— John Bruton

#capabilities #country #demand #eliminate #increase

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#arisen #aspect #been #cultivate #desire

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#circumstances #civil #color #discriminating #distinguishing