#mist

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#done #i #just #keep #know

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

#anarchist #art #i #i am #impressionist

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ↗

— Freda Adler

#been #law #man #master #mistress

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#biggest #biggest mistake #clint #clint eastwood #clooney

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#beginning #chemistry #couple #creek #dawson

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#did #make #many #mistakes #other

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. ↗

— Fred Allen

#hollywood #iowa #mistake #other #people

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#basket #certainly #court #decision #eggs