#nsa

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#fail #idle #indispensable #may #only

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#great #great things #insanity #little #little bit

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#court #deeply #element #extremist #flawed

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arranged #compensate #constituting #each #equilibrium

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. ↗

— Armand Assante

#emotional #physical #sensation #total

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#bringing #conditions #hard #human #human personality

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #arya #feast #funny #george-r-r-martin

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#benjamin #cohen #com #come #could

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane. ↗

— Randy Cohen

#fan #great #great thing #huge #i