#na

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#anything #done #gonna #i #kinds

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#both sides #emotional #jury #looking #manipulate

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#america #anniversary #celebrate #country #dear

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. ↗

— Julia Marlowe

#countenance #depict #good #inability #listen

You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#evidence #got #ignoring #like #looking

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. ↗

— Eric Massa

#believe #candidacy #cheney #commander #david

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#meditation #nature #practice #spirit #thought

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#after #combine #couple #every #happening