#not

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#better #blues #feel #finding #funny

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#also #before #day #exactly #first

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disbelieve #old #truths #young

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#because #cooper #crucial #else #exactly

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#less #more #more and more #noted #say

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#also #be original #brother #cannot #fail

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#describe #like #love #much #nothing

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#average #ball #batting #catch #cumulative

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#anything #doing #fools #from time to time #guilty

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#big #everybody #insignificant #leads #life