#now

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school! ↗

— Dave Attell

#call #choice #cops #driving #drunk

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#american society #heart #i #know #lead

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#bad #bad one #farther #go #hated

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#how #know #rich #were

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#chase #command #east #end #even

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #influences #know #more #other

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

#business #does #ever #friendship #hardly